At around 12.50 am, the plant’s electricity output was 1,229 megawatts, or 19% of Romania’s total production, according to real-time data published by the national power grid operator Transelectrica.
Cernavoda’s second reactor was shut down on May 10 for maintenance works.
The plant operates two reactors of 700 megawatts power each. 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.