The Nuclear Power Plant in Cernavoda
(Romanian: Centrala Nucleară de la Cernavodă)
is the only nuclear power plant in Romania.
It produces around 20% of the country's electricity.
It uses CANDU reactor technology from AECL,
using heavy water produced at Drobeta-Turnu
Severin as its neutron moderator and water from
the Danube for cooling.
By using nuclear power, Romania is able to reduce
its greenhouse gas emissions by over 10 million
tonnes each year.
The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
Originally a fishing village, Gura Portitei (Port) is known today as one of the most withdrawn (and quiet) tourist destinations on the Romanian coast, an alternative to Vama Veche, became too popular and crowded in recent years. Access is usually with vaporaşul, from Jurilovca Tulcea with special vehicles can be reached on the coastal road, or Vadu, Constanta on the Periboina or from St George, Tulcea.
The name was linked to the existing initial communication between Golovita lake and the Black Sea, closed in the 70s, which turned Golovita in a closed lake, with water being desalinated. The Lake connects with the North Lake Razim (free) and south of Lake Sinoe, through a system of locks. The area is a part of the biosphere reserve Danube Delta.
