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FM: Paks upgrade will stand as a "long-term guarantee" of Hungary's competitiveness
The foreign minister said the Paks upgrade would secure Hungary’s electricity supply for decades to come.
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Rosatom CEO: No obstacles in the way of Paks nuclear power plant expansion
Alexey Likhachev visited the Paks site with Hungarian Foreign Ministry State Secretary Levente Magyar on Friday.
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PM Orbán holds talks with head of Rosatom in Budapest
The meeting was also attended by Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Kirill Komarov, Rosatom’s first deputy director general.
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FM: Additional groundwork will soon begin to expand Paks nuclear power plant
Minister Szijjártó said both he and the Rosatom chief had expressed their commitment towards ensuring that the two new blocks should be put into operation at the beginning of the...
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FM: Claim government is ending cooperation with Rosatom “is a lie”
The increased role of France’s Framatome in the project concerned only the delivery of the control technology required for the new reactor blocks.
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Construction of Paks 2 nuclear power plant to start next year
Paks currently operates 4 VVER-440 reactors, while preparations are underway to build two new Rosatom-designed reactors, boosting capacity to 4,400 megawatts from 2,000 megawatts.
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Foreign Minister meets Rosatom execs to discuss Paks project
Talks will close today on the timeframe for the upgrade of Hungary’s sole nuclear plant at Paks with executives of Rosatom, the general contractor for the project.
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Rosatom: Paks upgrade going ahead as planned
The project of building two new blocks to the Paks nuclear power plant is being implemented as planned so that they be able to start operations in 2029-2030.
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PM Orbán holds talks with Rosatom CEO
Parties at the talks were in agreement that the two new reactor blocks under construction in Paks guaranteed Hungary’s continued supply of cheap and climate-friendly electricity.
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Rosatom reviews progress at Paks nuclear power plant
Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev has visited the Paks nuclear power plant to inspect progress on the site upgrade.
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Hungarian arm of Rosatom to install hydroelectric power plant in South Africa
The plant will be the first of many to provide much needed energy to parts of the region and each is capable of providing electricity for 250-400 households
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Hungary's Paks nuclear power upgrade awaiting nod from European Commission
Rosatom's CEO Alexey Likhachev said that everything is still in the planning stages and the team are awaiting the nod from the EC, which he predicts will come soon