ROMANIA | PAVILION MEET ROMANIA’S NUCLEAR SECTOR AT WNE2021
First power Romania’s first commercial nuclear power reactor began operating in 1996.
NUCLEAR SITES Cernavoda is the only nuclear power site in Romania. It produces around 20% of the country’s electricity from two 650 MWe CANDUs supplied by Canada.
NUCLEAR GENERATORS Romania’s Energy Ministry is the majority shareholder of National Company Nuclearelectrica (SNN), which is the sole nuclear power producer in Romania and the operator of Cernavoda. The Energy Ministry also coordinates the Nuclear and Radioactive Waste Agency, and has under its authority Regia Autonoma Tehnologii pentru Energia Nucleara (State Company Technologies for Nuclear Energy), the main nuclear research institution.
NUCLEAR NEW-BUILD In October, the Romanian government accepted the Integrated National Plan for Energy and Climate Change, which includes two new 675MWe units at Cernavoda. The site originally was expected to have at least four units. The plan would see units 3 and 4 go into
operation in 2030 and 2031. Romania has already signed a range of agreements towards this project with international partners, including the USA, France and Canada. The plan also included life extension for
Cernavoda 1 and 2. Romania signed a condition assessment contract with Candu Energy Inc. and Ansaldo Nucleare in 2019 as a first step to life extension for unit 1.
ROMANIA’S NUCLEAR COMPANIES Key members of Romatom (Asociatia Forumul Atomic Roman) include: ADS Solutions, Altima SA, Canadian Nuclear Partners, CCTI – Centrul de Cercetari in Termodinamica si Informatica, Certisign SA, Compcontrol, Concelex, Constructil Erbasu SA, Electroproject SA, Framatome, Industral Montaj SRL, RATEN, Rom Weld Concept SRL, Romelectro, SC Bureau Veritas Romania, SC Reinvent Energy SRL, Tecnatom, Trodent Servicii si Mentenanta SA and UTI Facility Management SA
We will collaborate with our partner Canada on the development of nuclear reactors of SNN, Romania’s
state-owned nuclear energy company, including collaboration on Candu refurbishments and new build projects in Romania.”
Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Romanian Minister of Energy
Life extension at Cernavoda 1 and 2 “is done at costs around 40% of new equivalent capacity.” It means
Romania can “ensure the supply of electricity without greenhouse gas emissions, with minimal impact on the environment, at competitive costs, thus contributing sustainably to the decarbonisation of the energy sector and achieving Romania’s energy and environment targets for 2030, in line with the objectives assumed at European and even global level (Paris Agreement)”.
Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Romanian Minister of Energy
20%
Two units at Cernavoda produce a fifth of Romania’s electricity
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