Hungary in Race Against Clock to Stabilise Danube Water Levels as Paks Nuclear Plant Faces Critical Days
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The Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary avoided a complete paralysis after the water level of the Danube River, its main source of cooling, remaining high enough in the vicinity of the plant, said Prime Minister Peter Magyar on Thursday. This was only possible, according to the first, thanks to engineering works carried out in the river.
I came from the future. To get there I did not have to climb a DeLorean, it was enough with a regular flight from Iberia. I went to Budapest, where a brutal drought has left the Danube in the bones. The longest river in the European Union is a water titan that rides 2.3 million liters per second as it passes through the capital of Hungary, but I found it unbridled, a still and lazy body of water like a lake. I went down to its bed and saw the hu…
The Prime Minister wrote on his Facebook page that he will have to wait two more days with the water level dropping.
According to the Prime Minister, the turbines that are still standing can be restarted from Sunday.
Prime Minister Péter Magyar wrote about the situation in Paks. He said that the water level will have to be lowered for another two days, but the situation may improve from Sunday.
The level of the Danube has never been so low and particularly worrying in Hungary. The country depends on the water of the river, which it pumps to cool the reactors of its only nuclear power plant, responsible for 40% of the country's electricity. If the level of the Danube still drops by five centimetres, the power plant will be completely out of service. Following the example of Romania, the Hungarian government has just launched emergency w…
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