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Cernavoda (meaning Black Water, in Bulgarian) was founded (under the name Axiopolis) by the ancient Greeks in the 4th century BC as a trading post for contacts with local Dacians. The Constanţa - Cernavodă railroad was opened in 1860 by the Ottoman administration. In 1895, the King Carol I Bridge was built across the Danube. The town gives its name to the late copper age Cernavodă archaeological culture, ca. 4000—3200 BC. The town is a Danube fluvial port, and it houses the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant, consisting of two CANDU reactors providing about 20% of Romania's electrical energy output. The second reactor was built through a joint venture between Canada's Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and Italy's ANSALDO and become fully functional in November 2007. The Danube-Black Sea Canal, opened in 1984, runs from Cernavodă to Agigea and Năvodari.
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