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Any similarity between the unplanned stops or power rebates of the CNE Cernavoda Units 1 and 2 and the Chernobyl accident causes is impossible to sustain through technical, operational arguments, the Romanian Atomic Forum - Romatom says, recommending caution and a rigorous research in addressing such topics in the public space.

Bucharest and other 14 counties will be under code orange of heavy snowfall on Thursday night, while 16 counties will be under the code yellow of abundant snowfall starting Thursday afternoon, according to warnings issued Wednesday by the National Weather Administration (ANM).

The turnover of retail trade (except for the trade in vehicles and motorcycles) dropped in January 2018 compared to the previous month, both as gross series, by 25.3 percent, and as series adjusted by the number of working days and seasonality by 0.9 percent, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS), released on Monday.

A cold wave is expected to gradually cover the entire Romania, Saturday night through Sunday, with 27 counties from Moldavia, eastern Transylvania, Oltenia, Muntenia and Dobrogea placed under code orange for freezing weather.

Romania's industrial turnover advanced 11.7 percent in 2017 y-oy, with the most important increases having been recorded in mining and quarrying and manufacturing, according to data with the National Institute of Statistics (INS) released on Friday.

The National Meteorological Administration (ANM) issued on Thursday a Code Yellow warning for heavy snowfalls in eight counties in the north of the country, starting tonight until Friday afternoon.

The counties under the warning are: Satu Mare, Maramures, Bistrita-Nasaud, Mures, Harghita, Suceava, Botosani and Neamt.

Romanian companies must be encouraged to acquire competitors from other countries, for right now there is a fiscal discrimination between financing through banking loan and new bonds issues, says Lucian Anghel, head of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB).