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Romania confirms plans to build five CANDU reactors at Cernavoda

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September 10, 2003

Romania has announced that it intends to carry through with construction of the five CANDU reactors at the Cernavoda power plant. Unit 1 has been in service since 1996 and unit 2 is 50% complete.
At the World Nuclear Symposium held in London, a spokesman confirmed that the country plans to complete construction of unit 3 by 2011 through a construction-operation-transfer contract, and that it will build units 4 and 5 for start-up by 2020.

Nuclear-generated electricity represents substantial savings in Romania: the Cernavoda plant generates power at a cost of 2.3 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour, versus 2.54 to 5.81 U.S. cents per kWh for the country's fossil fuel plants.