Doicesti SMR: Nuclearelectrica Seeks Funding — NRG-IA

Financing Romania's First Modular Reactor — Nuclearelectrica Seeks Private Investors Nuclearelectrica is seeking new financing structures and private partners for the Doicesti Small Modular Reactor (SMR) project, reacting directly to criticisms from interim Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan. The state-owned utility issued an official statement emphasizing that a project of this technological scale requires transpartisan political consensus and a complex financing structure that does not overburden the public budget. The project is being developed through the project company RoPower Nuclear, a joint venture owned equally by Nuclearelectrica and Nova Power & Gas. The national operator's reaction comes at a time of high vulnerability for Romania's nuclear future. While the Romanian state attempts to secure its energy independence, the high costs associated with America's NuScale technology have become a political battleground at the highest level. Nuclearelectrica insists that the specialist…