In July it was announced the Areva group and China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corporation (CGNPC) group were to bid for the Horizon project, which includes Wylfa B.

BBC: The existing Wylfa plant on Anglesey

The AP1000 from Westinghouse (now owned by Toshiba) is being built in China and America, and the EPR from Areva, a French company resulting from a merger between French and German nuclear-plant-builders, in China, Finland and France.

ECONOMIST: Safety

Areva and the French government are also aggressively selling French nuclear know-how to other countries, especially China.

NPR: France Presses Ahead with Nuclear Power

China is testing the waters with an array of reactors built by its own government and companies like Areva, Westinghouse and Canada's AECL. Russia, which also controls its nuclear industry--and has recently consolidated its oil and gas industries--is also planning a broad expansion of reactors in what appears to be a play to become an energy superpower.

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