Hungary’s Paks Nuclear Power Plant began restoring Unit 2 output after Danube water levels improved cooling conditions.

Hungary’s Paks Nuclear Power Plant began increasing the output of Unit 2 on Aug. 10 after Danube River water levels rose and cooling-water conditions improved. The action was a restoration of reactor output rather than the startup of a newly constructed generating unit.

Hungarian Prime Minister Gábor Magyar said the Danube level was 19 centimeters above the low recorded one week earlier. The plant operator said this improvement allowed the restoration procedure to begin.

An earlier update said Unit 2 was expected to return to full output by 20:00 Greenwich Mean Time. The supplied sources did not provide Unit 2’s electrical capacity, the duration of its reduced-output period, or the exact output level reached by the end of the day.