Romania has begun the controlled shutdown of the second reactor at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant because of the critically low level of the Danube, which provides water used to cool the plant’s turbine condensers. The operator, Nuclearelectrica, said the shutdown process started at 7 a.

The EU nation has already declared a state of energy emergency for the whole of August

Romania's only operating reactor at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant has enough water to continue operating for another nine days, authorities said, as record-low Danube levels…