The Second Nuclear Reactor At Cernavoda Will Start Operating In 2007

The second nuclear reactor at the Cernavoda electric plant, in eastern Romania, will start operating in 2007. The managing company invested in 2005 over 255 million euros in the reactor, and works reached 86% completion. By April construction work will end and complex, integrated tests will start. So far, some 50% of its systems are ready for independent tests.

The Romanian National Company Nuclearelectrica sSNNt got help from major companies in Canada, Italy, the United States, and France. "The joint team is made of experts from the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL-Canada), Ansaldo Nucleare (Italy), and our own SNN," said Teodor Chirica, general manager of SNN.

When the second reactor at the nuclear plant in Cernavoda will start producing electricity, in 2007, Romania will have 18% of its electrical energy supplied from this source.
This will proportionally reduce the country’s dependency on imported sources of energy and the pollution resulted from the combustion of classical fuels.