Speaking at an IAEA conference and counter-terrorism summit earlier this week, Foreign Minister Szijjártó made Hungary’s voice heard on some of the hard-hitting issues affecting the country today.
The foreign minister has revealed that US, German and French companies have won tenders in the Paks project, “which has grown to become a platform for large-scale East-West economic cooperation”.
Péter Szijjártó said the European Union must end its practice of negative discrimination of nuclear energy.
Péter Szabó noted that the town of 19,600 inhabitants expects to see an influx of some 10,000-12,000 people during the construction of the nuclear plant and a growth of some...
Negotiations finished at 2:00 a.m. this morning in Brussels, where the European Council was working on getting all EU Member States to form a joint position on making Europe’s economy carbon-free by 2050.
Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev has visited the Paks nuclear power plant to inspect progress on the site upgrade.
The first three of the support buildings for construction have been granted a building permit and the first of these, the main contractor’s office building, is being built.
The Foreign Minister said nuclear safety is particularly important in Central Europe, whose countries rely heavily on nuclear energy.
Süli told the Budapest Energy Summit that climate policy goals cannot be fulfilled without nuclear energy and nuclear plants are capable of providing non-stop power for both the industrial sector and consumers
The two new reactor blocks will be completed within deadline and without any technical or safety compromises.
Austria‘s Environment Ministry said that it would ask the court to annul the European Commission’s resolution approving the Paks nuclear power plant expansion
GE Hungary has won a 793 million EUR tender to manufacture and supply the turbines for the new reactors at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant
For the upgrade project, 40 percent of the suppliers will be selected from Hungarian companies via public procurement, in a transparent way