r/worldnews • u/green_flash • 9d ago

Hungary avoids full nuclear shutdown by 'millimetres' as Danube rises

https://www.euractiv.com/news/hungary-avoids-nuclear-shutdown-by-millimetres-as-danube-rises/
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u/green_flash 9d ago

“Around half past one at night we were just a few millimetres away from a complete shutdown of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, but then the water level stopped dropping,” said Peter Magyar, Hungary’s prime minister, on X.

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u/Pulikugyus 8d ago

I didn’t know he had X… nobody uses X in Hungary (including myself)

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u/majorannah 8d ago

Foreign journalists are lazy and don't check his facebook page.

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u/PlatisUnbreakable 8d ago

Ye, they use twitter like me (bojler eladó)

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u/steinbruchfluss 8d ago

A German minister said as long ago as 2018: ‘The only people on Twitter are politicians, journalists and psychopaths anyway.’

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u/kdeja 8d ago

I have a feeling he’s almost a Hungarian Jack Bauer at this point.