The ministry had been expecting bids until Thursday, after having extended the initial mid-December deadline by three months.
Nuclearelectrica, operator of Romania’s sole nuclear power plant Cernavoda, is looking for new shareholders in the construction of the two reactors, after Czech CEZ, German RWE, Spanish Iberdrola and French GDF Suez walked out.
The two new reactors will have an installed power of 720 MW each and they will double the power plant’s output. The units currently running at Cernavoda cover 20% of Romania’s electricity consumption.