BUCHAREST: Romania delayed plans to sink four rock-filled barges into the Danube until Friday citing unsafe conditions, as the race tightens to divert water from the drought-hit river to its only working nuclear reactor and buy a few more days of operation amid low electricity supplies. Record low water levels on the Danube, used to cool reactor turbines, have already forced the shutdown of one reactor, and authorities have taken unprecedented measures to keep the country’s only other reactor running, including detonating a rock obstruction earlier this week.

Danubio ai minimi: la Romania usa 180 kg di esplosivo e quattro chiatte per deviare acqua verso il reattore di Cernavodă.

Romanian company Nuclearelectrica is importing electricity from Ukraine to cover a power shortfall after Unit No. 1 of the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant had to be shut down.