The United States will consider the possibility of lifting sanctions against the Paks-2 nuclear power plant in Hungary

The administration of US President Donald Trump will consider the request of the Hungarian leadership to lift US sanctions on the Paks-2 NPP construction project, carried out with the participation of Rosatom, said Hungarian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations Levente Magyar. This was announced by Magyar Nemzet on April 26.

It is reported that Magyar held talks with the Director General for Europe and Russia at the National Security Council (NSC). The United States by Andrew Pick, during which questions were raised about the operation of the agreement on avoidance of double taxation.

Levente Magyar also said that during the meeting, the possibility of using American nuclear technologies in Hungary was discussed as part of Hungarian-American cooperation in the field of nuclear energy.

There is a nuclear power plant in Paksha, built by Soviet specialists back in the 1980s. It accounts for half of all electricity generated and a third of the electricity consumed in Hungary. The station, located on the banks of the Danube River 100 km south of Budapest, has four power units with VVER-440 reactors. At the same time, the construction of its second stage is underway — the fifth and sixth power units under the Paks-2 project developed by Rosatom. According to calculations, after the commissioning of two new VVER-1200 nuclear reactors in the early 2030s, the capacity of the Paksha nuclear power complex will increase from the current 2,000 MW to 4,400 MW.

Accept supplies: Hungary and Slovakia will be able to continue oil purchases from the Russian Federation

Brussels is preparing a plan to abandon Russian energy supplies, but is forced to make concessions.

Earlier, on January 10, the US authorities expanded sanctions against a number of Russian corporations and their executives. Thus, Gazprom Neft and its head Alexander Dyukov, Surgutneftegaz, as well as the head of Zarubezhneft, Sergey Kudryashov, were included in the sanctions list. In addition, restrictions were imposed on Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev.