The new units are to join two existing Candu units at Romania’s Cernavoda nuclear plant and add 1,400 megawatts to Romania’s power supply. The loan is to help Romania pay for Canadian equipment, expertise and supplies over many years—the first Cernavoda reactor took 18 years from contract to completion. (The Logic)

Talking point: At the signing event in Ottawa, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and Romania’s Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja emphasized both nuclear energy’s climate-change benefits and its European security implications. Burduja, especially, focused on how his country’s decision in the 1970s to buy Western reactors instead of Soviet ones make it much less dependent on Russia for energy today, and a potential supplier of power to Moldova and Ukraine. “This is not just about Romania, it’s about the security of the whole region,” he said. “And ultimately, it’s about freedom.”