Hungary’s Paks plant cuts reactor output as Danube water temperature rises during heatwave

Budapest, Hungary. Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant reduced output on one of its four reactors by 243 MW because of high water temperature in the Danube River during a record heatwave, operator MVM said on Saturday.

Output reduction at Paks

MVM said the output cut affected one of the plant’s four reactors.

Cooling water threshold exceeded

A measurement taken in the morning showed the cooling water temperature downstream from the plant at 29.7 degrees Celsius, above the 29.5 C intervention threshold, according to a statement published on MVM’s website.