"We have not yet gone into Romanian project details, but we certainly have sufficient experience finishing construction of a reactor which initially followed overseas blueprints. In particular, the company is applying final touches to a German-built reactor in Iran," said an Atomstroiexport spokesman.
Novosti contacted another informant, at the Rosatom, or Federal Nuclear Energy Agency. He said the agency had not yet regarded prospects for Russia to engage in the Romanian project.
Cernavoda units One and Two were designed on a Canadian heavy water reactor technology. Now, Russia can come up with its own power unit blueprints.
"Whatever nuclear exports presuppose a wide range of high-tech production on a lucrative arrangement," said the Atomstroiexport expert.
The Atomstroiexport, a closed-end joint-stock company, appeared in 1998 through a merger of the Atomenergoexport and the Zarubezhatomenergostroi. At present, it is working on contracts to build two power units, each for 1,000 megawatt-one in a Chinese-based nuclear plant, the other in Iran's Bushehr.
