Romania uses explosives to redirect water into the Danube

Romania’s military on Monday used 180 kilograms of explosives to blast rock near the lower Danube’s Bala Canal in an effort to redirect water into the river’s main channel and toward the Cernavoda nuclear power plant.

Video 04 August 2026 After the Romanian Naval Forces detonated a massive block of stone that was obstructing Danube water flowing towards one of its arms (Old Danube) supplying Cernavoda nuclear power plant (NPP), the company’s management and the public water management company Apele Romane expect one of the two nuclea

Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant More must be done ⁠to strengthen the European Union’s borders at critical points, ⁠European Commission president ⁠Ursula ​von der Leyen told Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez ⁠in a letter. In the carefully-calibrated letter, fir

The river has hit a record low in places amid prolonged drought

Romania blasts rocks to reroute cooling Danube water to nuclear reactor  Reuters

BUDAPEST/BUCHAREST, Aug 3 - Romania blew up a rock outcrop on Monday to help redirect vital cooling water from the drought-hit Danube to its last working nuclear reactor, as neighbouring Hungary said it might be able to eke out two more days of power from its only atomic plant.

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