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Canada signs $3-billion deal to finance nuclear power in Romania
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But if it can help its neighbours become less reliant, too, he said that will help “diminish” the ability of Russian President Vladimir Putin to use its energy exports for geopolitical gain.
Wilkinson linked the deal to a promise Canada made in 2022, following Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine: to work with allies in Europe and help them replace Russian sources of energy.
Nuclear power, however, has been a Canadian success story, Wilkinson said, with the Candu reactors developed decades ago.
Ambassadors from Ukraine, Poland, and Finland were among those who attended the signing ceremony for the Canada-Romania nuclear deal Tuesday.
Burduja said that in the 1970s, as many European nations were turning to Russian nuclear technology, Romania made an unexpected choice to go with Canada’s version.
“We’re grateful that in the ‘70s Romania took this decision, because otherwise we would probably now have Russian-based nuclear power plants which would be tremendously complicated in the current context,” he said.
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