We’re Blowing Up Rivers to Keep Nuclear Reactors Alive. And That’s the Least Scary Part.
In Romania, engineers are using dynamite to blast the Danube riverbed to keep a nuclear reactor from overheating. This desperate act reveals a terrifying truth: climate change is now threatening the very energy sources we built to fight it. Water, not uranium, has become the critical bottleneck for nuclear power. The future of clean energy hangs on a river that’s drying up.