  A new generation of local three-body potentials providing an excellent
description of the properties of light nuclei, as well as of the
neutron-deuteron doublet scattering length, has been recently derived. We have
performed a comparative analysis of the equations of state of both pure neutron
matter and symmetric nuclear matter obtained using these models of
three-nucleon forces. None of the considered potentials simultaneously explains
the empirical equilibrium density and binding energy of symmetric nuclear
matter. However, two of them provide reasonable values of the saturation
density. The ambiguity concerning the treatment of the contact term of the
chiral inspired potentials is discussed.
