At Paks NPP power was reduced again — this time unrelated to the Danube After a summer of problems caused by low water levels in the country's main river, Hungary's nuclear plant has hit a new failure.
Hungary to double funding for Paks-2 NPP even after cooling crisis Just weeks after the Danube halted the Paks nuclear plant for the first time in 44 years, Hungary nearly doubled funding for two new units there.
Hungary has completely shut down its only nuclear power plant for the first time in 44 years. This summer the Danube already halted one nuclear plant — now it fully stopped a second. Hungary's Paks NPP, supplying up to half its electricity, ceased generation entirely for the first time since 1982.