Romania plans to build a second nuclear power plant after the completion of two more reactors at its Cernavoda plant on the Danube River, Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu said last week.
Romania has set an October 25 deadline to receive binding bids for the license to build and operate units 3 and 4 in Cernavoda, an investment estimated at 2.2 billion euros. “After we complete units 3 and 4 we must continue to develop the nuclear system in Romania,” Tariceanu told reporters in Cernavoda after the official opening of the the plant’s second reactor.
“We must already start to think about where we will have the next nuclear power plant in Romania,” he said. With the second reactor entering commercial use yesterday, nuclear power will supply roughly 18 percent of total energy needs in Romania.
Tariceanu also said the Cernavoda plant, which was initially designed to have five reactors, will stop at four due to “insufficient technical capacity.”
(Reuters)