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Romania / Government Considering SMRs For Beyond 2030, Says Minister

By David Dalton
22 October 2019

Government Considering SMRs For Beyond 2030, Says Minister
Ramona Manesco said Romania is planning one more unit at Cernavodă.
Romania’s objective is to refurbish the Cernavodă-1 nuclear power plant and by 2030 to build a new unit on the same site, although beyond 2030 the country is considering new Generation IV reactors including small modular reactors, Ramona Manesco, the country’s minister for foreign affairs, told a forum in Brussels.Ms Manesco told the first US-EU High-Level Industrial Forum on Small Modular Reactors that Romania remains very interested in R&D in this field and is developing the Advanced Lead Fast Reactor European Demonstrator (Alfred) at the Institute of Nuclear Research in Pitești.

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