(ANSA-AFP) - BUCHAREST, AUG 13 - Romania began Thursday the complete shutdown of its only nuclear plant after water levels in the Danube, used to cool the site, fell to a record low, the national nuclear energy company said. Nuclearelectrica already shut down last month one of the two reactors at the Cernavoda power plant, which usually generates a fifth of the Eastern European country's total electricity. The second needed to shut as well "due to the significant and ongoing drop in the water level of the River Danube", it said in a statement. "Nuclearelectrica SA announces that, on the morning of 13 August 2026, it began the procedures for the controlled shutdown of Unit 2 at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant," it said. Romania has been trying for days to avert a complete shutdown of the plant's two 700MW reactors. (ANSA-AFP).