Cernavodă nuclear power plant

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Cernavodă nuclear power plant
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Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant (Romania)
Cernavodă nuclear power plant
Coordinates 44 ° 19 '20 "  N , 28 ° 3' 26"  O Coordinates: 44 ° 19 '20 "  N , 28 ° 3' 26"  E
Country: RomaniaRomania Romania
Data
Owner: Romanian Ministry of Economy and Trade
Operator: Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica SA
Project start: 1978
Commercial operation: Dec 2, 1996

Active reactors (gross):

2 (1412 MW)

Construction discontinued (gross):

3 (2118 MW)
Energy fed in in 2010: 5,981.71 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning: 90,454.03 GWh
Website: http://www.nuclearelectrica.ro/
Was standing: June 4, 2011
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .
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Cernavodă ( Romanian Centrala Nucleară de la Cernavodă ) near Cernavodă is the only nuclear power plant in Romania . Five power plant blocks were originally planned, of which blocks 1 and 2 are in operation. The reactors installed there are Canadian CANDU reactors , which use heavy water as a moderator . The water of the Danube or the directly adjacent Danube-Black Sea Canal is used as cooling water .

history

The nuclear power plant was planned in the early 1980s. After a construction period of 14 years, the first block was completed in 1996, the second after a 25-year construction period in 2007. Both blocks each have an output of 705.6  megawatts . The nuclear power plant provides about a fifth of the country's electricity.

The construction of reactors 3, 4 and 5 was canceled.

In March 2008, the Romanian Atomic Energy Agency commissioned a consortium of six international corporations to finish building reactors 3 and 4 for an estimated 2.3 billion euros. Consorts were the Italian electricity company Enel , the German RWE (via its subsidiary RWE Power ), Electrabel (Belgium), Iberdrola (Spain), CEZ (Czech Republic) and ArcelorMittal Romania.

In January 2011, RWE , GDF Suez , which had meanwhile taken over Electrabel, and Iberdrola announced that they would no longer pursue the Cernavoda project due to economic and market-related uncertainties.

According to the IAEA, the completion of Unit 5 was finally rejected on March 11, 2014.

In 2015, Nuclearelectrica and the China General Nuclear Power Group signed a letter of intent to develop reactors 3 and 4 for an estimated 6.5 billion euros. In January 2020, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban announced his intention to terminate the agreement with the China General Nuclear Power Group.

The name of the power station and the city is derived from the Bulgarian черна вода (tscherna voda) , which means "black water".

  • The nuclear power plant. Only blocks 1 and 2 (the two on the right) are currently in operation

  • Block 1 up close

Data of the reactor blocks

The Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant has two operating units :

Reactor block Reactor type net
power 		gross
power 		start of building Network
synchronization 		Kommer
essential operation 		Shutdown
Cernavoda-1 CANDU-6 650 MW 706 MW 07/01/1982 07/11/1996 12/02/1996
Cernavoda-2 07/01/1983 08/07/2007 10/31/2007
Cernavoda-3 CANDU reactor 02/09/1984 - - Construction stop on December 1st, 1990
Cernavoda-4 08/15/1985 - -
Cernavoda-5 05/12/1987 - - Construction stop December 1st, 1990,
finally abandoned March 11th, 2014

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  1. ↑ Basic technical description of the CANDU system used (English) , accessed on March 19, 2018
  2. ^ IAEA: Romania Nuclear Power Reactors. Annual Electrical Power Production for 2009
  3. ↑ a b c d The nuclear power plants Cernavoda 3 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Cernavoda 4 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) and Cernavoda 5 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the PRIS of the IAEA
  4. ↑ wirtschaftsblatt.at of March 6, 2008: Romania awards billion-dollar contract for the expansion of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant ( Memento of January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ rwe.com January 20, 2011: RWE, GdF Suez and Iberdrola withdraw from the Cernavoda nuclear energy project
  6. ↑ https://www.iaea.org/pris/
  7. ↑ Negocierile cu China Nuclear Power pentru construcția reactoarelor 3 şi 4 de la Cernavodă se reiau în septembrie. Proiectul, în valoare de 6.5 billion euros stirileprotv.ro 28 August 2017
  8. ↑ https://www.romania-insider.com/ro-exit-deal-cgn-nuclear-jan-2020
  9. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "Romania: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
  10. ↑ IAEA PRIS - Nuclear Power Reactors in the World, Reference Data Series No.2 (English; PDF; 1.7 MB)

See also

Web links

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