Hungary is taking drastic measures to raise the water level in the Danube and keep the Paks nuclear power plant operating, reports AP.
145,000 cubic meters of rock will be lowered into the river to create a rock barrier below the surface. The idea is that it will prevent the outflow of water downstream from the nuclear power plant. Two eighty-meter-long barges will also possibly be lowered near the plant's cooling water pumps in order to raise the water level locally.
Similar measures were taken in Romania last week. Despite this, the state-owned energy company announced that it had been forced to stop the country's last reactor in operation on Thursday morning.
Paks has been in operation for 44 years and normally accounts for about a third of Hungary's electricity.
Hungary Takes Desperate Plan to Save Nuclear Power
Hungary is taking drastic measures to raise the water level in the Danube and keep the Paks nuclear power plant operating, reports the AP.
145,000 cubic meters of rock will be lowered into the river to create a rock barrier below the surface. The idea is that it will prevent the outflow of water downstream from the nuclear power plant. Two eighty-meter-long barges may also be lowered near the plant's cooling water pumps in order to raise the water level locally.
Similar measures were taken in Romania last week. Despite this, the state-owned energy company announced that it had been forced to stop the country's last reactor in operation on Thursday morning.
Paks has been operating for 44 years and normally accounts for about a third of Hungary's electricity.
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