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Hungary’s Centre For Energy Research Warns On Plans To Keep Paks Operating During Low Danube River Levels

By Kamen Kraev
11 August 2026

Possibility of ‘unacceptable safety risk’ at four-unit nuclear station on Danube river

Hungary’s Centre For Energy Research Warns On Plans To Keep Paks Operating During Low Danube River Levels
The four-unit Paks nuclear power staton in Hungary. Courtesy MVM.
Hungary’s HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research has warned in a position paper that proposals to keep the Paks nuclear power station generating electricity during extremely low Danube river levels by damming the plant’s cold water channel would conflict with fundamental nuclear safety principles.

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