Cernavodă Unit 1 Restarts After Danube Low-Level Shutdown; Unit 2 Still Conditional

Unit 1 of Romania's Cernavodă nuclear plant is restarting after a three-month shutdown caused by low Danube water levels, which had limited cooling capacity. Unit 2 remains offline pending a sustained rise in river levels. The restart restores a key baseload power source, but the prolonged outage highlights the vulnerability of nuclear and thermal plants to climate-induced water stress.

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