page_title: Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant
hierarchical_section_title: Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant
caption_attribution_description: The Cernavodă nuclear power plant units in various degrees of completion.
context_page_description: The Nuclear Power Plant in Cernavodă is a nuclear power plant in Romania. It produces around 20% of the country's electricity. It uses CANDU reactor technology from AECL, using heavy water produced at Drobeta-Turnu Severin as its neutron moderator and as its coolant agent. The Danube water is not used for cooling of the active zone.
  By using nuclear power, Romania is able to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by over 10 million tonnes each year.
  The project began in 1978, and the power plant was designed in Canada by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in the 1980s, and was contracted during the Communist era. The initial plan was to build five units, and schedule their startup from 1985 onwards. Units 1 and 2 are currently operational. Three more partially completed CANDU reactors exist on the same site, part of a project discontinued at the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, their work being halted since 1 December 1990.
  CNE-INVEST is responsible for the preservation of Units 3-5.
context_section_description: The Nuclear Power Plant in Cernavodă (Romanian: Centrala Nucleară de la Cernavodă) is a nuclear power plant in Romania. It produces around 20% of the country's electricity. It uses CANDU reactor technology from AECL, using heavy water produced at Drobeta-Turnu Severin as its neutron moderator and as its coolant agent. The Danube water is not used for cooling of the active zone (nuclear fuel).
  By using nuclear power, Romania is able to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by over 10 million tonnes each year.
  The project began in 1978, and the power plant was designed in Canada by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in the 1980s, and was contracted during the Communist era. The initial plan was to build five units, and schedule their startup from 1985 onwards.  Units 1 and 2 are currently operational. Three more partially completed CANDU reactors exist on the same site, part of a project discontinued at the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, their work being halted since 1 December 1990.
  CNE-INVEST is responsible for the preservation of Units 3-5.
caption: The nuclear power plant in 2006. At the time, only Unit One, on the far right was in commercial operation, unit two came into operation in 2007.
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