The project will bring European countries closer to achieving climate goals, said Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev MOSCOW, August 26.
/tass/. The construction of the Paks-2 NPP will guarantee Hungary's energy sovereignty and bring European countries closer to achieving climate goals. This was announced on Friday by Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev.
"Together with Hungarian partners, a huge amount of work has been done on the preparation of documentation. Obtaining a construction license for new units of the Hungarian NPP testifies to the high confidence in the Russian VVER-1200 technology, which has successfully passed the test of time and proved its safety and reliability. We are confident that the Paks-2 NPP will become the guarantor of Hungary's energy sovereignty and will bring European countries closer to achieving climate goals," Likhachev said, commenting on the issuance by the Hungarian Atomic Authority (OAN) of a permit for the construction of two VVER-1200 generation 3+ power units at the Paks-2 NPP site.
On August 26, 2022, following the review of project documentation with a volume of hundreds of thousands of pages, the OAN issued a permit for the construction of power units No. 5 and No. 6 of the Paksh-2 NPP. The license for the construction of this type of power units was issued for the first time in the territory of the European Union. Thus, the construction of power units No. 5 and No. 6 of the Paks NPP is entering an active phase, the press service of Rosatom said in a statement issued on Friday.
It is emphasized that obtaining a construction license confirms the compliance of the new blocks with Hungarian and European safety standards. "In particular, the Paks-2 NPP project will use modern automated active and passive NPP safety systems, a double reinforced concrete shell and a "melt trap" capable of retaining radioactive materials in the core in an extremely unlikely out-of-design accident," the report says. "Today, the Paks-2 NPP project is entering an active phase - the issuance of a license confirms that the project meets the strictest European and Hungarian safety requirements. It is realistic that in 2030 Hungary will have two new power units, thereby ensuring the stability of energy supply," the press service of the state corporation quotes the Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Szijjarto.
The Paks-2 NPP project is being implemented on the basis of the Russian-Hungarian intergovernmental agreement of January 14, 2014 and three basic contracts of December 9, 2014 on the construction of a new plant. Paks-2 NPP will be built on a turnkey basis. The guaranteed service life of power units No. 5 and No. 6 is 60 years. The general contractor is Rosatom engineering company ASE JSC. Currently, work is underway on the construction site to prepare for the construction of a nuclear power plant: soil strengthening is underway, preparation for the construction of an anti-filtration curtain (PFZ), the development of the main pit has begun, construction and installation facilities are being built.
