India, July 31 -- The raging climate change-triggered heatwave in Europe has begun to affect the continent's nuclear energy sources after wreaking havoc by generating wildfires and drought.

Nuclear power plants in Hungary and Romania, both countries in the basin of the continent's second-longest waterway, the Danube have been shut down after the river reached levels last recorded 30 years ago.

In Hungary, the country's Prime Minister Peter Magyar stated that its only nuclear power plant will be forced to shut down entirely for the first time due to record low water levels of the Danube.

The Paks power plant was built in the Soviet era. It uses water from the Danube for cooling. Since the water level has reached record low levels, sucti...