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DISASTERAug 15Cleanup underway as Russian oil spill reaches Oman’s coastlineAl Jazeera [en]
DISASTERAug 14Romania urges households and businesses to save electricity after its only nuclear power plant shuts down over low Danube water levelsLe Monde [en]
DISASTERAug 13Romania shuts nuclear plant, Hungary dams dry Danube RiverDW News [en]
DISASTERAug 13Romania shuts off second reactor at Cernavodă NPP amid low water levels on DanubeNearly two-thirds of the Danube has seen flow rates that are the lowest on record for a month of July in 34 years, according to an analysis published on Monday by the European climate change observatory, Copernicus.EuroNews [en]
DISASTERAug 13Falling Danube flow forces shutdown of Romania’s sole nuclear plantAl Jazeera [en]
DISASTERAug 13Oil spill from tanker believed to be Russian reaches Oman's coastline, Muscat authorities sayThe beaches of Ras Madrakah on mainland Oman, around 200 kilometres north of Qabiliyah Island, have also been contaminated, according to Oman's Environment Authority, which has been keeping an eye on the leak.EuroNews [en]
DISASTERBREAKINGAug 13Romania declares an energy alert as the Danube falls too low to cool its nuclear reactors , a climate - driven power crisisecoticias.com · Spain
DISASTERAug 6Romania rushes to sink 4 barges in the Danube to keep a nuclear power plant second reactor runningwral.com · United States
DISASTERAug 4Romania, Hungary, France... Europe's nuclear power plants tested by heatwaveRecord low water levels in Europe's major rivers have ​reduced electricity output and shrunk company earnings, stoking fears about the economic impact of searing heat and erratic rainfall. Governments across Central and Eastern Europe are taking steps to conserve electricity and avert an energy crisis as record low water levels on the Danube River have forced power plants to the brink of shutting down.France 24 [en]
DISASTERAug 3Dry Danube River threatens nuclear power in Romania, HungaryHungary's Paks nuclear power plant was operating at about 10% of capacity because of a lack of cooling riverwater. In Romania, the military blew up a rock outcrop in a bid to improve water flow to the Cernavoda plant.DW News [en]
DISASTERAug 3Romania Uses Controlled Explosion in Danube to Safeguard Nuclear Power Plant Coolingenglish.pravda.ru · Russia
DISASTERAug 3Romanian navy blasts riverbed to protect nuclear plantRomania's military detonated part of the Danube riverbed to redirect water towards the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant.Al Jazeera [en]
DISASTERJul 30Danube water levels: Hungary, Romania cut nuclear outputDW News [en]
DISASTERJul 1Two dead after storms batter Austria and RomaniaBucharest was hit particularly hard by storms overnight, with flooding damaging buildings and vehicles across the capital.EuroNews [en]
DISASTERBREAKINGJun 20Woman killed in Russia shopping centre stabbing rampagecentralwesterndaily.com.au · Australia
DISASTERBREAKINGJun 20Woman killed in Russia shopping centre stabbing rampageA stabbing rampage at a Russian shopping centre has left one person dead and reportedly injured five others.thewest · australia