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It’s normal to expect a certain level of scrutiny when a company wants to hire an intern. That scrutiny is not usually based on swimwear. A Czech nuclear power station seemed to focus more on looks than qualifications when they used a swimsuit contest — yes, swimsuit contest — to hire interns. CEZ’s Temelín station posted photos of 10 high school graduates posing in bikinis and hard hats on its Facebook page last week. According to the post, the woman with the greatest number of likes was supposed to be crowned “Miss Energy 2017” and score a two-week internship with...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- The Czech Republic's dominant power utility, CEZ AS, said Friday it has won the bid to build two more reactors at Romania's only nuclear power plant. The bidding, held by Romania's state-owned Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica, the plant's operator, was for a 2.2 billion euro ($3.2 billion) project to build two 720-megawatt reactors at the Cernavoda plant, to supplement the plant's two existing reactors. Cernavoda is a town on the Danube River in southeast Romania. The new reactors are planned to be operational by 2015, CEZ said. The Czech company said it is due to start...