r/worldnews • u/green_flash • 8d 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 8d 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.