Romania’s N-Plant Operator Nuclearelectrica 9-mo Net Profit Rises 15.5% to 138.1 Mn Lei (32.1 Mln Euro)

Nuclearelectrica's turnover rose by 6.2% to 1.13 billion lei through September, the company said in a statement. Further details were not available

Nuclearelectrica operates Romania’s sole nuclear power plant in Cernavoda, in the southeastern county of Constanta. The plant has two 700-megawatt reactors, which provide around 18% of the country's power needs.

Romania plans to build another two reactors at Cernavoda, which are scheduled to become operational by 2015-2016. Construction costs have been estimated at four billion euro ($6.0 billion) with Nuclearelectrica contributing some two billion euro.

(1 euro = 4.2963 Romanian lei)