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Live Click here to searchsearchSign upNews|Climate CrisisFalling Danube flow forces shutdown of Romania’s sole nuclear plantRomania had tried to avert a total shutdown of the plant, which usually generates a fifth of the country’s electricity.
The country’s national nuclear energy company, Nuclearelectrica, said on Thursday it would begin a controlled shutdown of the second reactor at the Cernavoda plant, after shutting down the facility’s other reactor last month.
list 1 of 3Hungary plans to shut down only nuclear power plant amid drought.
Liste 2 de 3: Quão grande é o desafio que os incêndios florestais representam para a Europa.
list 3 of 3June and July hottest on record in Western Europe, monitor says.
The closure comes as a severe drought grips large parts of Europe, causing flow rates in nearly two-thirds of the Danube to hit their lowest in over three decades, according to an analysis by the European climate change observatory Copernicus.
The Cernavoda plant’s director, Romeo Urjan, told the AFP news agency he did not expect the plant to restart operations “within the next 10 days”.
Romania had been trying to avert a complete shutdown of the plant, which usually generates a fifth of Romania’s electricity.
Fontes de energia alternativas, incluindo energia eólica e importação de eletricidade, devem garantir suprimentos adequados, disse o Ministério de Energia na quarta-feira.
But it also reiterated an appeal for “responsible consumption”.
It has warned that as a last resort, large industrial consumers would have to face restrictions on consumption during evening hours to save electricity.
Hungary’s nuclear plant partially shut.
O país vizinho, Hungria, conseguiu até agora evitar um desligamento completo de sua única usina nuclear, em Paks, cujos quatro reatores também são resfriados pelo Danúbio.
But with the river depth expected to drop further, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Wednesday the government had ordered the construction of a submerged wall, or weir, to try to control flows near the plant.
Two 80-metre barges are also being stationed at Paks that could be sunk to raise the water level.
Paks, whose output usually covers about a third of Hungary’s electricity needs, has been partially shut down since late last month.
The low levels of the Danube, Europe’s second-longest river, have also severely impacted shipping along its 2,850km (1,770-mile) route stretching from western Germany to its mouth on the Black Sea.
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