克林頓爲美國公司爭取核電廠擴建合同

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the Czech Republic for a short visit that includes a push to help a U.S. firm win a nuclear plant construction contract.

Clinton meets Monday with Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg.

The Czech Republic wants to boost its nuclear capacity to produce about half of the country's electricity, up from about 30 percent today.

U.S. firm Westinghouse and a Russian company are bidding on a $10 billion contract to expand the Temelin nuclear plant, located south of Prague near the Austrian border.

A senior State Department official traveling with the secretary says Clinton will stress Westinghouse's safety record amid concerns about nuclear reactors following the disaster in Fukushima, Japan last year. The official also says choosing a U.S. firm would help the Czech Republic diversify its energy production away from Russia.美國國務卿希拉里·克林頓目前正在對捷克共和國進行短暫訪問，其日程包括幫助一家美國公司贏得一座核電廠的建築合同。

克林頓星期一將會晤捷克總理內恰斯和外交部長施瓦辛貝格。

捷克希望將本國的核發電能力從目前全國總髮電量的大約30%增加到大約50%。

美國西屋公司和俄羅斯一家公司正在對擴建捷克特梅林核電廠的100億美元項目競標。這座核電廠位於臨近奧地利邊界的布拉格以南地區。

隨同克林頓訪問的一名美國國務院高層官員說，克林頓將強調西屋公司的安全記錄，日本去年發生福島核事故之後，人們對核反應堆感到擔憂。這名官員還說，選擇美國公司將有助於捷克脫離俄羅斯，在能源生產領域實現多元化。