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The ministry of energy resumed the negotiations with the Chinese who want to build the reactors 3 and 4 from Cernavoda
The ministry of energy resumed the negotiations with the Chinese from CGN interested to build the reactors 3 and 4 in Cernavoda, the Romanian party having a new mandate for more flexible negotiaitons, stated on Thursday the minister of energy Toma Petcu at the conference ‘ Plugged energy’ organised by the Bursa newspaper.
‘Recently there was a new meeting with the Chinese. We have a new mandate with multiple possibilities, more flexbile. I hope that these negotiations develop in an alert rhythm for the next five months and to get to an end the negotiations’ said the minister.
At the end of August the General Assembly of the Shareholders of Nuclearlelectrica approved the resumption in September of the negotiations with the Chinese company CGN for the building of the reactors 3 and 4 in Cernavoda, negotiations which will happen for a period of six months, announced at that date Daniela Lulache, the general manager of Nuclearelectrica.
‘Yesterday (24 August) we had AGA where there was approved the mandate of the Board to establish the terms and the conditions of the negotiation mandate to continue the project. This mandate was given as a result of the approval of a memorandum in the government in July with this issue. This mandate has terms and conditions connected to negotiation for six months’ Lulache said.
According to this, the negotiations for the reactors 3 and 4 will start in September.
‘The negotiations had been suspended in December last year and will be resumed in September. I think the reactors 3 and 4 are compulsory if we want to have energy independence and energy security. It is absolutely essential that the Romanian state define the role, contribution, support. It is a live and dynamic project. Our partners come with a request, we have the answers, so it is not impossible that the negotiations end in six months, but it is not easy’ Lulache said.
At the same time, she said that it is essential that the decision regarding the extension of the life of reactor 1 be taken at the end of this year, otherwise it will be too late.