EC Gives Green Light to Romanian Nuclear Plant Expansion
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Picture of Unit 1 of Romania's NPP in the Danube city of Cernavoda. Photo by www.cna.ca
The European Commission had approved the construction of Unit 3 and 4 of the Romanian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Cernavod?.
The news was reported Wednesday by the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR.
Construction cost is estimated at EUR 4 B. The construction will be carried out by the "EnergoNuclear" company where the Romanian State has 51% of the shares while Italian, Spanish, German, and Belgium companies and Indian businessman Lakshmi Mittal have minority shares.
NPP Cernavoda currently has two reactors with 700 MWT each, producing 18% of Romania's electric power.
The deadline to build the two new units is 2017.
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