Romanian state-owned nuclear power plant operator Nuclearelectrica has signed the main engineering, construction and procurement contract to extend the life of Unit 1 at the Cernavodă nuclear power station at a cost of about €1.9bn ($1.98bn), the company said on 19 December.
The contract is with a consortium of four companies, comprising Canada’s AtkinsRealis, the Canadian Commercial Corporation, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Italy's Ansaldo Nucleare. The agreement still needs approval from the Canadian government and Nuclearelectrica shareholders.
Cernavodă, which is Romania’s only commercial nuclear station, has two 650-MW Canada-designed Candu-6 plants that began commercial operation in 1996 and 2007.