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.n

Romania to shut down nuclear plant due to low Danube  euractiv.com

It will be the plant’s first shutdown since a 2003 drought, as unprecedented heatwaves and rain shortages across Europe this year have caused the level of the Danube -- whose waters help cool the plant -- to plummet.

Gravelines power station left with only one of its six nuclear reactors operating at full capacity after jellyfish clogged pumps

The massive Gravelines nuclear power plant just 30 miles from Britain has been forced to close down in order to avoid disaster after a swarm of jellyfish got sucked into the cooling system on Monday

The nuclear power station on the North Sea coast has had jellyfish flooding into its filtration system. It is not the first time Graveline has faced this problem.

Jellyfish-hit French nuclear plant shuts down three reactors  reuters.com