Nuclearelectrica
🇷🇴 RO · Founded 1998 · Active
Also known as SNN, SN Nuclearelectrica
Societatea Națională Nuclearelectrica (SNN) is Romania's only nuclear power producer, formed in 1998 from the reorganisation of the state utility RENEL and 82.49% owned by the state since its 2013 stock market listing. It operates Units 1 and 2 of the Cernavodă nuclear power plant, CANDU pressurised heavy-water reactors of about 700 MW each, and makes CANDU 6 fuel bundles at its plant in Pitești. Its project company Energonuclear is developing Cernavodă Units 3 and 4, and a contract with Candu Energy to complete them was signed in late 2021, according to Wikipedia.
- Sector
- Fission, Fuel cycle
- Technology
- Pressurised heavy-water reactor
- Role
- Utility, Operator
Terms
- Pressurised heavy-water reactor
- Heavy water (deuterium oxide) kept under pressure as both coolant and moderator, which absorbs far fewer neutrons than ordinary water and so lets the reactor run on natural, unenriched uranium. That is the CANDU design's defining trade: heavy water is expensive to produce, but the fuel needs no enrichment plant. Fuel is natural or slightly enriched uranium oxide, usually in horizontal pressure tubes, refuelled online without shutting the reactor down.
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