Romania shut down its only nuclear power plant after water levels in the drought-hit Danube river fell too low to supply its last remaining operating reactor.
Hungary and Moldova are also watching their rivers shrink to record lows.
If a summer of extreme heat, wildfires, droughts and floods (in other parts of the planet) still isn’t enough to make politicians act on #climate then we - the people who keep electing them - have earned whatever comes next.
https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-cernavoda-nuclear-reactor-shut-down-danube-drought/
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