A joint venture led by U.S. engineering firm Fluor has received a limited notice to proceed with designing an expanded Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant in Romania.
The JV, which also comprises AtkinsRealis, Ansaldo Nucleare, and Sargent & Lundy, will oversee the design of two additional units for the facility, including developing engineering and construction plans, updated cost estimates, and preliminary nuclear safety assessments.
SN Nuclearelectrica subsidiary EnergoNuclear led the signing of the deal during the recent United Nations COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan, which was attended by Romanian Minister of Energy Sebastian Burduja, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, and other industry and government leaders.
The Romanian nuclear power plant’s two units supply an estimated 1.4 gigawatts of electricity or about 20 percent of the country’s electricity needs.
Advancing Sustainable Energy
The new deal is the latest partnership between Fluor and the Romanian government to advance the country’s nuclear power capacity. In July, the Irving, Texas-based company collaborated with RoPower Nuclear to customize a six-reactor small modular reactor power plant with NuScale technology.
Pierre Bechelany, president of liquefied natural gas and power at Fluor, expressed the company’s excitement in advancing sustainable energy in Romania and its neighboring countries.
“Nuclear energy is a safe and clean source of reliable baseload electricity, which is critically important to meeting growing power demands globally,” he said.