Rosatom told about contacts on nuclear power plant in Hungary

The implementation of the Paks-2 NPP project in Hungary is on schedule, Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev told Izvestia. According to him, the parties are in constant contact at all levels, solving logistical problems arising during the realization of the project.

"We are in constant contact. In this sense, we have no limitations. They are at the level of the customer, i.e. the plant administration (Atomstroyexport), and the project management, and at the intergovernmental level, I mean our regular contacts with [Hungarian Foreign Minister] Peter Szijjártó. We are not yet out of contractual schedules and, realizing all the difficulties in implementing the project, including logistical ones, we are overcoming them together with our Hungarian friends," Likhachev told Izvestia.

In December 2014, Rosatom and Hungarian power company MVM signed a contract to build two new VVER-1200 power units. By the end of 2024, according to the head of Rosatom, the site was prepared for pouring the "first concrete" at the base of the reactor compartment.

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