Water shortages are becoming an increasingly important challenge for energy infrastructure, particularly for power plants that depend on rivers for cooling. Romania is now dealing with an unusual example of this concern at the Cernavodă nuclear facility, where extremely low Danube flows have prompted authorities to use four rock-filled barges to redirect water toward the plant.
Romania has placed four rock-filled barges in the Danube to help protect cooling-water supplies for the Cernavodă nuclear plant as exceptionally low river levels threaten its operations. The submerged barges are made to redirect more of the available water toward the main channel leading to the facility.
