US ousts China from Romania nuclear project

Bucharest (AFP) Oct 9, 2020

Washington's energy ministry said Friday that the US would dislodge China as financier for two new reactors at Romania's only nuclear power plant. Romanian Energy Minister Virgil Popescu and US counterpart Dan Brouillette had initialled a "draft intergovernmental Agreement to cooperate on the expansion and modernisation" of Cernavoda in Romania's southeast, the US Department of Energy said