The first consortium is made up of Canada’s SNC Lavalin Nuclear, Italy’s Ansaldo Nucleare and Romania’s Elcomex IEA, while the second one is led by Atomtechnoprom and includes four other firms in the Russian Federation, the Romanian Economy Ministry said in a statement Wednesday.
The letters of intent will be analyzed by evaluation committee, the statement says.
EnergoNuclear started the procedure for the purchase of the engineering and construction contract on September 16, 2010. The procedure is planned to develop during the whole 2011 and in the first half of 2012.
EnergoNuclear is a joint venture made by state-owned nuclear energy company Nuclearelectrica, and Electrabel (part of Belgian-French group GDF Suez), Germany’s RWE, Italy’s Enel, Spain’s Iberdrola and ArcelorMittal’s Romanian unit.
Romania, through Nuclearelectrica, controls 60.15% in EnergoNuclear, after Czech CEZ has recently sold it its 9.15% stake in the joint venture. Each of Enel, Electrabel and RWE own 9.15% of the shares, while Iberdrola and ArcelorMittal Romania hold a 6.2% stake each.
The construction of the two reactors, that will cumulate around 1,400 megawatts of installed power, will double the capacity of the Cernavoda plant. Currently, the plant in Cernavoda has two nukes that ensure around 20% of the country’s electricity production.
Works at nuclear reactors 3 and 4 are scheduled for completion in 2017.