Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant
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The Nuclear Power Plant in Cernavodă (Romanian: Centrala Nucleară de la Cernavodă) is the only nuclear power plant in Romania. It produces between 10% and 12% of the country's electricity. It uses CANDU reactor technology, using heavy water produced at Drobeta-Turnu Severin as its neutron moderator and water from the Danube for cooling.
The power plant was designed in Canada by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in the 1980s, during the Communist era. The initial plan was to build five units, of which Unit One was finished in 1996 and produces 705.6 MW of electricity, while Unit Two is under construction and will be operational in the second trimester of 2007 and will work at full capacity in September 2007[1]. When Unit Two is operational, the plant is expected to provide 18% of the country's electrical needs.
Units 3 and 4 are also in their planning stages, being expected to be built in six years after the contracts will be signed. When completed, the four units combined are expected to provide up to 40% of Romania's total electricity needs, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels for electricity generation.
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