Low water in the Danube threatens Romania’s Cernavoda nuclear plant

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Low water in the Danube threatens Romania’s Cernavoda nuclear plant
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Romania is struggling with record-low water levels in the Danube River, which have led to significant reductions in electricity production and disruptions to shipping and agriculture.

The authorities in the country have previously shut down one reactor unit at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, but now the plant's second reactor is at risk of being shut down.

In Hungary, it was announced on Sunday that the country's only nuclear power plant in Paks was at risk of being completely shut down, but on Monday engineers had secured operation in one of the plant's reactors.

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