Reply #9: I find it amusing that ENEL couldn't move fast enough on being a partner on these plants. [View All]

ENEL, of Italy, of course, was required to phase out nuclear power, and then ran around Europe trying to get reasonably priced electricty.

In recent years they have been trying to buy interests in nulcear power plants in other peoples countries. They tried, and were rejected, to become investors in ENF's Flammanville plant, and became investors in plants in Slovenia and Slovakia and finally, in Romania.

Romania's nuclear industry strikes me as being well run, and I am happy to see expanding heavy water reactor capacity in Europe.

They seem ambitious in this realms, and I wouldn't be surprised in Romania ended up selling electricity to Germany within 20 years or so, particularly when Gerhard Schroeder's owners begin playing politics with those gas lines, much as they do all the time in Ukraine.