May 6 (SeeNews) - Nuclearelectrica [BSE:SNN], the operator of Romania's sole nuclear power plant (NPP) Cernavoda, said on Thursday that it will shut down one of the plant's two 700 MW units on Sunday, May 9, as part of a planned outage program.
During the planned outage, the unit will undergo preventive and corrective maintenance, inspections and mandatory testing, Nuclearelectrica said in a statement filed with the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
The Cernavoda nuclear power plant, located in southeastern Romania, has two reactors of 700 megawatts each, which meet roughly a fifth of the country's electricity needs.
Blue-chip Nuclearelectrica's shares traded 0.18% higher at 28.2 lei ($6.9/ 5.7 euro) as at 1457 CET on the BVB on Thursday.
(1 euro = 4.9266 Romanian lei)
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