“At around half past three in the afternoon, we were just a few millimeters away from a complete shutdown of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, but then the water level stopped falling,” Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar said on X.
Record-low water levels in the Danube have caused growing concern in the region: Austria has faced a reduction in hydropower generation, and nuclear power production in Romania has been paralyzed. At its lowest point, the river’s flow rate in Budapest was just 723 cubic meters of water per second (m³/s), compared to more than 1,000 in mid-July.
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