Cernavoda

Cernavoda is a metropolis in Constanta County, Northern Dobruja, Romania with a populace of 20,514. The city's name is derived from the Bulgarian cerna voda, meaning "black water". This name is regarded by a few scholars as a calque of the sooner Thracian call Axiopa, from IE n.Ksei "darkish" and upā "water". The metropolis is a Danube fluvial port. It houses the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant, along with two CANDU reactors imparting approximately 18 percent of Romania's electric strength output.

The second reactor changed into built thru a joint undertaking between Canada's Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and Italy's ANSALDO and have become fully functional in November 2007. The Danube-Black Sea Canal, opened in 1984, runs from Cernavoda to Agigea and Navodari. The outskirts of Cernavoda host severa vineyards, producers of Chardonnay wine. The biggest vineyard in the region is Murfatlar. Cernavodă became founded by way of the ancient Greeks in the 4th century BC as a trading put up for contacts with neighborhood Dacians.