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Balfour Beatty is being tipped to win the huge job to build up to four nuclear power stations in Wylfa and Oldbury for utility joint venture Horizon Nuclear Power.

Balfour Beatty is working with French nuclear reactor manufacturer Areva on its bid for the contract, which could be worth up to 拢10bn over the four plants, and is up against a consortium of Laing O鈥橰ourke with US-based reactor builder Westinghouse.

Horizon Nuclear Power has previously said it will make an announcement on the consortium to win the job by the end of this month.

Horizon鈥檚 nuclear power stations are set to be the second wave of nuclear plants to be built under the government鈥檚 new build programme, following the construction of plants at Hinkley in Somerset by EDF.

An industry source said: 鈥淚t is strongly rumoured that Areva are now in line to win the Horizon contract. It feels like Areva may have got French government funding to help support their bid.鈥�

The Sunday Times yesterday also reported speculation that Horizon is set to choose Areva, but didn鈥檛 mention that Areva is bidding in partnership with Balfour Beatty, meaning a huge potential boon for the contractor.

EDF is also using an Areva reactor design, but is yet to decide which contractor will supply the civil engineering to support the construction of the wider plant. It is set to choose between a consortium of Balfour Beatty and Vinci, and Laing O鈥橰ourke and Bouygues, on the 拢2.5bn main civils contract in the summer.