Romania’s Cernavoda nuclear power plant shuts down

13 August 2026 Romania’s nuclear group Nuclearelectrica (BVB: SNN) announced that, on the morning of August 13, 2026, it began procedures for the controlled shutdown of Unit 2 at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant. The shutdown procedure of Unit 2 at Cernavodă began at 8:00 AM, according to data consulted by Economica.net. The power will gradually decrease and from 11:00 AM the nuclear unit will be disconnected from the national power grid. The national energy system will operate indefinitely without nuclear energy, given that Unit 1 of the Cernavodă nuclear power plant was shut down on July 28. Both reactors had to be shut down because the low flow of the Danube no longer allows the reactors to cool down. The maneuvres in the Bala arm area to direct part of the flow to the Old Danube arm a