{"id":5148,"date":"2026-08-03T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:59:35","slug":"romania-blasts-rock-to-divert-water-from-drought-hit-danube-to-nuclear-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=5148","title":{"rendered":"Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/aug\/03\/europe-heatwave-wildfires-migration-ceuta-spain-latest-news-updates\">Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Romanian naval forces carried out a controlled explosion to help redirect vital cooling water from the drought-hit Danube to the country\u2019s last working nuclear \u2060reactor, while neighbouring Hungary \u200bsaid it may be able to eke out two more days of power from its only atomic plant.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary and Romania have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/aug\/01\/eastern-europe-dried-up-rivers-tourism-energy-mammoth\">forced to shut down nuclear reactors<\/a> cooled by the Danube for the first time, as record-low water levels deepen fears of an energy crisis across the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/03\/romania-blasts-divert-danube-water-nuclear-reactor-energy-crisis-hungary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/03\/romania-blasts-divert-danube-water-nuclear-reactor-energy-crisis-hungary' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output Europe live \u2013 latest updates Romanian naval forces carried out a controlled explosion to help redirect vital cooling water from the drought-hit Danube to the country\u2019s last working nuclear \u2060reactor, while neighbouring Hungary \u200bsaid it may be able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}