ROMANIA: Second Nuclear Power Plant to be Built in Transylvania

Romania’s second nuclear power plant will be built close to the River Somes, Mediafax informs. Four locations are currently evaluated, Government sources stated on Thursday. The intention to build a second nuclear power plant was announced in 1983-1984 by the former communist regime. In 2007 former Premier Calin Popescu-Tariceanu announced that the project will be restarted and over 100 locations were taken into account last year, mainly in Transylvania (73 locations in the basins of Rivers Olt, Mures and Somes), Moldavia (18 locations in the River Bistrita basin) and Dobrogea (11 locations in the Danube River basin upstream from Cernavoda). Economy Minister Adriean Videanu stated back in May this year that the plant will be built in Transylvania. The only nuclear power plant in Romania, the one in Cernavoda, has tow reactors with a power of 700 MW each, covering approximately 18 per cent of the national consumption of electricity. Two similar reactors will be built by 2015-2016 and will cost an estimated EUR 4 bn.

Source: Nine o'Clock