Cernavodă
- 4h ago
Romania to detonate Danube rock, sink barges to save Cernavodă nuclear plant
With the Danube at a 40-year low, Romania's government mobilises the army to blast a granite rock and sink four stone-laden barges, redirecting water to the Cernavodă nuclear plant's cooling intake.
- 3d ago
Danube at record low forces first-ever shutdown of Hungary's Paks nuclear plant, Romania and France also curb output
Hungary's Paks plant will halt all four reactors by Monday, a first in its 42-year history, as the Danube's water level drops 121 cm below the previous low. Romania's Cernavoda and France's Golfech have also taken reactors offline amid a heatwave.
- 4d ago
Hungary shuts down Paks nuclear plant as Danube hits record low, triggering energy crisis
The Soviet-built Paks station, which provides around 40 percent of Hungary's electricity, was fully halted on Sunday after the Danube fell to minus 124 centimetres, smashing a 2018 record. Prime Minister Peter Magyar warned of five critical days ahead and urged drastic power savings.
- 6d ago
Romania's Cernavodă nuclear plant shuts down Unit 1 as Danube drought hits 30-year low flow
Romania's Nuclearelectrica will shut down Unit 1 of the Cernavodă nuclear power plant on the morning of 28 July 2026, citing the Danube's lowest flow in 30 years and severe drought conditions.
- Jul 11
Three cars crash on Romania's A2 motorway: two children injured, 7 km traffic jam
A three-vehicle collision on the Bucharest-Constanța motorway injured a 5-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy and blocked traffic, creating a 7-kilometer queue towards the Black Sea coast on Saturday, 11 July.
