Hungary, Russia Sign Work Plan on Construction of Paks II NPP

© Sputnik . Viktor Tolochko / Go to the mediabankMinister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó speaks at the high-level international conference “Eurasian Security: Reality and Prospects in a Transforming World” in Minsk.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó speaks at the high-level international conference “Eurasian Security: Reality and Prospects in a Transforming World” in Minsk. - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 14.11.2023
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PAKS (Sputnik) - Hungary and Russia have signed a work plan for the construction of the Paks II nuclear power plant, and the connection of new units to the network is scheduled for the early 2030s, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday.
“Today we signed a work plan for the coming years, and based on it I can say that at the beginning of the next decade we will be able to connect the new nuclear power plant that we are building to the network,” Szijjarto said during a joint press conference with Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev.
The Rosatom head said that the number of international companies participating in the Paks II NPP project will increase.
According to Szijjarto currently 94 Hungarian companies are participating in the project, as well as firms from Germany, France, Sweden, Austria and the US.
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