Low Danube River Levels Force Romania to Shut Down Both of Its Nuclear ...
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The first reactor of the Cernavodă nuclear power plant in Romania had already been shut down, and now the second one follows. The water level of the Danube sank to a low level.
Romania will need to import much more energy after stopping the two nuclear reactors of the Cernavoda plant due to the decrease in the Danube level, explained to the public HotNews, the president of the Intelligent Energy Association, Dumitru Chisăliţa, who draws attention to the fact that it is "a critical, despicable situation". The expert anticipates that "we face the situation, ...
Unit 2 of CNE Cernavoda will be shut down controlled and disconnected from the National Energy System, either Wednesday evening or Thursday morning, depending on the decrease in the Danube level, announced Nuclear Power. Reactor 1 was shut down due to the same reason.
The Romanian authorities have decided to completely disconnect the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, in the extreme southeast of the Balkan country, due to the low flow of the Danube River, whose waters cool the reactors of the plant. Following the disconnection of unit 1 on Tuesday, unit 2 will also be shut down on Thursday, announced the Romanian Ministry of Energy in a statement. Cernavoda’s Canadian-made plant, which has been in operation for a…
Nuclear electricity (SNN stock exchange symbol), the only local producer of nuclear energy, announced the controlled shutdown and disconnection of the National Energy System of Unit 2 of the Nuclear Power Plant at Cernavoda, the measure to be applied during the evening of 29 July or the morning of 30 July.
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