The partnership between Romania and the United States to build the first nuclear power plant with modular mini-reactors of the SMR type in Europe (and in the world, if the Romanians manage to stick to their proposed ambitious calendar, by 2027-2028), has taken the first big concrete step. The place where the SMR (Small Modular Reactors) technological plant of the American company NuScale Power will be built has been chosen: Dojcesti, Dambovitsa county.
It will use what is left of the infrastructure of the former coal-fired thermal power plant located a stone’s throw from Tirgovishte and now owned by Nova Power&Gas, a company controlled by brothers Simion and Teofil Mureşan from Cluj, old power and energy infrastructure businessmen with a turbulent past in business connections
Romanian officials hope to have the 462MW plant with six modular nuclear mini-reactors ready even earlier than the Americans plan to complete the world’s first such plant at their home in Idaho: by 2028, to synchronize with the expected decommissioning of Reactor 1 in Chernavod in 2027.
This is an extremely ambitious and aggressive schedule, as Panorama has shown in this extensive analysis. Not only because this technology has not yet been implemented anywhere in the world, but mainly because of the huge costs it involves, like any new technology.
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Source: Hot News
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