Canada loans $3-billion to Romania to complete construction of two nuclear reactors

Open this photo in gallery: Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Sept. 19.BLAIR GABLE/Reuters The Canadian government will loan up to $3-billion to Romania's nuclear power operator to build two nuclear reactors - funds that will be directed exclusively to Canadian providers of goods and services working on the project. The loan to Societatea NaÅ£ională Nuclearelectrica (SNN) will finance completion of two Candu 6 reactors, construction of which originally began in the mid-1980s. At a news conference to announce the loan in…