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Flooding threatens Hungarian energy services? – UPDATED
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Flooding on the River Danube poses no threat to energy services in Hungary, the energy ministry said on Saturday.
Energy Minister Csaba Lantos said gas and electricity had been turned off temporarily in some settlements affected by the flooding, but added that no interruption to countrywide services was expected.
Early on Friday, a second-degree flood alert was ordered on the Danube at the site of the Paks nuclear power plant, but this is not expected to be raised to the third degree as the Danube peaks, the ministry said.
None of the power lines or transformer stations of electricity grid operator MAVIR are threatened by flooding, it added.
Two sluices at oil and gas company MOL’s Danube Refinery have been closed and sandbags have been used to reinforce two points, but operation is continuing without interruption, the ministry said.
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