Member States like Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania have plans to invest heavily in nuclear energy.
These two plants use Canadian technology making them different to the ill-fated Soviet one in Chernobyl.
Romania now wants to build two more reactors there and upgrade the existing ones.
“It is impossible to reach the targets without having nuclear”, he adds.
He believes that if people don’t accept nuclear energy as a green one, then nuclear won’t have the same access to financing as other competitors.
“If you allocate this money for nuclear power, that means that you disadvantage another sector, like renewables.
He thinks it’s “very important to bring this kind of new technology to the local community”.
ENEL tells us that for wind energy to fully develop, “the most important factor is the building of new transmission lines which are needed to bring the electricity from the wind/solar power plants to the customers”.
Romania is also a sunny place, solar power could play a bigger role in the country’s future energy mix.
Back in Cernavoda though, the shift supervisor, Costin Antonie, sees nuclear energy as the dominant force in the country.