Snowstorms that occurred in Bulgaria today paralyzed traffic and caused interruption of electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes, while forcing the atomic energy company Nuclearelectrica in neighboring Romania to close the reactor No.1.
The snowstorms have caused blackouts in more than 770 cities in Bulgaria, according to the authorities, while closed and portions of Trakigia highway in the southeast, and the A-2 motorway connecting the capital of Romania, Bucharest, the Black Sea port , Constanta.
The state company Nuclearelectrica announced that set off the national grid the reactor No. 1 of 706 MW, located on the Danube. Both the company's reactors supplying about one-fifth of the electrification of Romania.
Due to the severe weather was closed for at least eight hours the airport of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast and delays in dozens of flights from the international airport of Bucharest.
The temperature is forecast to drop to 25 degrees Celsius below zero in central Romania and minus 20 in Bulgaria. Authorities warned citizens to avoid unnecessary travel as the amount of snow in parts of both countries has reached 60 cm.
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