The primary contract for the construction of two new nuclear plants at Romania’s Cernavodă nuclear power station is ready for signing, according to a report by economic news outlet Profit.ro.

The outlet said state-controlled project company EnergoNuclear, which is wholly owned by Cernavodă’s operator Nuclearelectrica, is set to finalise the engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPC) agreement with a consortium comprising six companies from Canada, the US and Italy.

According to reports in Romania, the consortium includes Canada’s Candu Energy, the proprietary developer of the Candu reactor technology used at Cernavodă, along with two subsidiaries of Texan conglomerate Fluor, the majority shareholder in NuScale, the small modular reactor (SMR) developer aiming to launch SMR technology at the Doicești coal site in Romania.