Four barges on the Danube were flooded in Romania to send water to the Chernavode NPP
In Romania, four barges were sunk in an arm of the Danube River to redirect part of the water flow to the Chernavode nuclear power plant. This was announced on August 8 by the Romanian Waters state institution.
"The four barges that sank as a result of controlled flooding will act as two artificial thresholds designed to redirect part of the flow to the branch feeding the power plant," the agency said in a statement on Facebook (banned in the Russian Federation, owned by Meta Corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).
It is noted that the operation to sink the last two barges ended on August 8. They were placed at a distance of about 300 m from each other. The second group of vessels is located upstream and has a greater slope in order to redirect the flow more efficiently towards Balas.
Experts predict an increase in water levels of about 6-7 cm in the old Danube area and 2-4 cm in the central Danube. The Romanian authorities expect to assess the first results of the operation by Monday, August 10.
Bloomberg reported on the same day that Romania would be able to keep the second power unit of the Chernavode NPP in operation for at least another nine days after the blasting operations on the Danube, which allowed the water level at the station to rise by 4 cm. It was noted that in August Romania introduced a high-alert regime in the energy sector against the background of a significant decrease in generation due to drought and record low levels of the Danube, which also affected the production of nuclear energy in Hungary.
Prior to that, on August 3, the Romanian military blew up a rock formation in the Danube riverbed to increase the flow of water to the country's only nuclear power plant. To clear the riverbed, the military used 180 kg of explosives, destroying a rock that narrowed one of the branches of the river.
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