The main contract for the construction of the new reactors 3 and 4 of the Romanian Cernavodă nuclear power plant is ready to be signed, according to data reviewed by Profit.ro.

State-controlled project company EnergoNuclear – fully owned by Nuclearelectrica (SNN), the operator of Cernavodă – is close to finalizing the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPC) agreement ) with a consortium made up of six companies from Canada, the United States and Italy. .

The consortium includes Canadian company Candu Energy, the exclusive developer of the CANDU reactor technology used at Cernavodă, as well as two subsidiaries of Texas conglomerate Fluor, the majority shareholder of NuScale, the developer of small modular reactors aiming to pioneer SMR technology in Doicești.

Other partners include Italy’s Ansaldo Nucleare and US engineering firms Sargent & Lundy and S&L Engineers.

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