“The reactor will be cut off from the national power grid at 00:00 hours on May 7,” Nuclearelectrica said in a statement Wednesday.
Cernavoda currently operates two reactors of 700 megawatts power each and covers around 20% of Romania’s electricity production.
The government plans to build two additional nuclear reactors with similar capabilities in Cernavoda, but the project was put off after several key investors withdrew from the project.