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Romania Restarts Coal Plant as Danube Drought Forces Nuclear Shutdown

ProcIntel Risk Index (PRI) PRI indicates how much procurement risk attention a canonical event warrants, based on its potential impact, corroboration, linked-entity criticality, geographic or regulatory exposure, and confidence in the available evidence. — 11 · Minimal Freshness: Recent Shows how recently the evidence supporting the event was updated. Freshness is displayed separately and does not automatically reduce PRI. Shows whether all structured inputs needed for the PRI are sufficiently assessed. Incomplete Entity Criticality data is disclosed rather than silently treated as low risk. DATA QUALITY WARNING

PRI: 11 — MINIMAL Base risk 24/100 × Low confidence multiplier (0.45). Highest contributor: Significance 48/100, normalised to this factor's 40-point cap (+19 of 40). Limiting factor: Linked-entity criticality 0/100, normalised to this factor's 30-point cap -- DATA QUALITY WARNING: no eligible entities (30 points below its maximum). DATA QUALITY WARNING: no eligible entities.

Confidence multiplier Confidence limits the final PRI when evidence is uncertain. A severe but weakly supported claim cannot reach the highest PRI bands.: 0.45 (Low) · Calculated 2026-08-18 15:17:33 (vv1).

Full contribution breakdown
  • Procurement Impact: 19 / 40 — Significance 48/100, normalised to this factor's 40-point cap
  • Corroboration: 5 / 15 — A single event -- not yet corroborated by a separate clustered event (neutral baseline, not a penalty)
  • Entity Criticality: 0 / 30 — Linked-entity criticality 0/100, normalised to this factor's 30-point cap -- DATA QUALITY WARNING: no eligible entities
  • Geographic Regulatory: 0 / 15 — 0 distinct content-linked geography/geographies
Event type
Factory shutdown
UUID
b3c710b7-f91f-4f26-8306-e91c629c398a
Editorial review status
Pending (ProcIntel's own review of this record)
Event lifecycle
Breaking (the real-world state of the situation — a separate concept from review status above)
Significance
3 · Material
  • This type of disruption typically has a moderate procurement impact.
  • No specific geography identified yet.
  • Linked to 1 tracked entity.
  • Assessed time horizon: Short-term.
Confidence
2 · Low (distinct from each article link's own extraction confidence below)
  • Reported only by secondary sources so far — no primary/official confirmation yet.
  • Reported by a single source so far — not yet independently corroborated.
  • Some key facts (e.g. exact date) are still missing or unconfirmed.
  • Evidence is current — updated within the last week.
Impact direction
Negative (provisional default — not yet reviewed)
Occurred at
Not yet established (no explicit date was tightly bound to the matched event text)
Record type
REAL

Source Facts

Romania has this week restarted a 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant to partially offset the generation lost by the closure of nuclear electricity output after the low water level on the Danube river forced a shutdown of the country’s only nuclear power plant. Romania, which lost 20% of its power generation with the closure of both rectors at its Cernavoda nuclear power plant, has restarted the Rovinari Group 4 coal-fired power unit. The additional coal-fired generation is adding nearly 300 megawatts (MW) to the National Energy System, Cristian…

Linked Signals

PublishedHeadlineSourceMatched textExtraction confidenceMethod
2026-08-18 14:30:00 Romania Restarts Coal Plant as Danube Drought Forces Nuclear Shutdown Oilprice.com shutdown, closure 55.6 keyword combination

Linked Entities

EntityTypeLink methodConfidenceSource article
Global Region reused entity extraction 95.0 article

Spend Categories

No spend categories linked yet

Spend categories are linked by a reviewer, not assigned automatically.

Review History

DateActionPreviousNewReviewerNote
2026-08-18 15:17:32 Created — Factory shutdown: 'Romania Restarts Coal Plant as Danube Drought Forces Nuclear Shutdown' (lifecycle=Breaking) Deterministic v1 extractor —
2026-08-18 15:17:32 Pri Recalculated score=None, band=None score=1, band='Minimal' Deterministic v1 extractor PRI: 1 — MINIMAL Base risk 5/100 × Very Low confidence multiplier (0.15). Highest contributor: A single event -- not yet corroborated by a separate clustered event (neutral baseline, not a penalty) (+5 of 15). Limiting factor: No Significance score yet (event has no linked articles) (40 points below its maximum). DATA QUALITY WARNING: no eligible entities.
2026-08-18 15:17:32 Article Linked — source_item #9859 — —
2026-08-18 15:17:33 Significance Changed None 3 — —
2026-08-18 15:17:33 Confidence Changed None 2 — —
2026-08-18 15:17:33 Pri Recalculated score=1.0, band='Minimal' score=11, band='Minimal' — PRI: 11 — MINIMAL Base risk 24/100 × Low confidence multiplier (0.45). Highest contributor: Significance 48/100, normalised to this factor's 40-point cap (+19 of 40). Limiting factor: Linked-entity criticality 0/100, normalised to this factor's 30-point cap -- DATA QUALITY WARNING: no eligible entities (30 points below its maximum). DATA QUALITY WARNING: no eligible entities.