Record drought and heatwave bring energy emergency to Eastern Europe

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Record drought and heatwave bring energy emergency to Eastern Europe
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Numerous governments across Central and Eastern Europe are taking steps to conserve electricity and avert an energy crisis amid record low water levels on the Danube River. In Hungary, the country's only nuclear plant provides electricity for half the country - but is now being shut down as there is not enough water to cool its reactors down.

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