“Unit 2 has been shut down, for causes yet unknown,” Nuclearelectrica general manager Dumitru Dina told Mediafax. He said the problem wasn’t serious.
In a statement later Wednesday, Nuclearelectrica said the reactor was shut down due to problems at the cooling system of the unit’s electric generator. It said the nuke will be up and running once the problem is solved.
Nuclearelectrica operates two 700-megawatt reactors at its nuclear power plant in Cernavoda, covering around 20% of Romania’s energy consumption.
The latest unscheduled shutdown in Cernavoda took place in November last year, when the Unit 2 stopped automatically due to a computer malfunction.
Nucleareletrica is majority owned by the state, through the Economy Ministry.