Nuclear Power Was Supposed to Save Us. Instead, It’s the First to Fail.
The shutdown of Hungary’s Paks nuclear plant due to record-low Danube water levels exposes a brutal truth: the climate crisis is crippling the very technology meant to solve it. As rivers dry up, nuclear power β the supposed ‘stable baseload’ savior β becomes the first casualty of extreme weather. This isn’t a one-off; it’s a systemic warning for Europe’s energy future.