{"id":152106,"date":"2026-08-26T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=152106"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:08:09","slug":"ugorska-aes-zapraczyuye-na-povnu-potuzhnist","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/ugorska-aes-zapraczyuye-na-povnu-potuzhnist\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian Nuclear Plant to Return to Full Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"54\" data-end=\"359\">Hungary\u2019s only nuclear power plant, Paks, is gradually restoring operations after reducing output due to drought conditions in Europe. The plant is expected to return to its full capacity of 2,000 MW by Wednesday, Prime Minister P\u00e9ter Magyar said during a briefing at the facility, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"361\" data-end=\"580\">Two of the three reactors that were shut down in August were restarted over the weekend. As a result, electricity generation more than doubled from its lowest level, when the plant was operating at just 10% of capacity.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"582\" data-end=\"752\">The crisis was caused by prolonged heatwaves that led to critically low water levels in the Danube. This created problems for the cooling systems of the nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"754\" data-end=\"877\">Hungary was forced to increase electricity imports and call on households and businesses to voluntarily reduce consumption.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"879\" data-end=\"1070\">To avoid a complete shutdown of the plant, authorities took emergency measures, including flooding two barges and constructing an underwater barrier to raise water levels around the facility.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1157\">The Paks Nuclear Power Plant provides around 40% of Hungary\u2019s electricity generation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1159\" data-end=\"1364\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Magyar said Hungary needs to modernize its water management system and prepare for more frequent droughts in the future. According to him, the government plans to develop comprehensive climate legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":152107,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-152106","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/152106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=152106"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=152106"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=152106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}