No matter which party comes in power, the energy sector is bound to be restructured. Apparently for the purpose of finding the "optimal production formula", the reorganising of the energy sector, especially of nuclear power, seems to serve certain interests. Over the years, the plants related to nuclear energy have benefitted from a series of normative acts which changed their destiny.
In the current proposal for reorganisation, only reactors 1 and 2 at Cernavodă will be included in the two new national companies. RAAN, under whose subordination are Romag Prod, producer of heavy water, and FCN Piteşti, which produces uranium bundles, are not included in any of them.
Abandoned for a while during the communist regime, the nuclear power development project took magnitude during the post-December period. Since 1990, Romania's nuclear policy has changed, the Nuclear Energy Group (GEN), as a department within RENEL, taking responsibility for the whole Romanian nuclear programme.
After several changes and after Cernavodă reactor 1 was put into operation, in February 1998, the Government does not want to hear about the nuclear programme anymore, and decides not to build reactor 2.
In July 1998, another Government decision appears, which establishes the National Electricity Company SA, the National Company Nuclearelectrica SA and the Romanian Authority for Nuclear Activities (RAAN) by reorganising RENEL.
Continuing the string of changes, whose sense no-one could explain now, the Nuclear Energetics Group is divided into two: SN Nuclearelectrica, which includes CNE Cernavodă and FCN Piteşti and RAAN Drobeta Turnu Severin, comprising Romag Prod, ICN Piteşti, CITRON (renamed SITRON), plus the Turnu Severin Thermal Power Plant (Halânga), a RENEL subsidiary, which, on this occasion, receives the name of Romag Termo.
In 2000, things seem to enter the no
