Ministry of Energy of Hungary: the life of the Paks nuclear power plant will be extended by 20 years, nuclear energy is safe
The head of the Ministry of Energy of Hungary, speaking about the extension of the operating life of the four power units of the Paks nuclear power plant until the 2050s, noted that the station provides a third of the electricity consumption in the country
The Hungarian authorities intend to extend the life of the country's only nuclear power plant, Paks, built according to Soviet technology, by 20 years, since nuclear energy is relatively cheap, safe, and carbon-neutral. This was stated by the Minister of Energy of the country Csaba Lantos, reports HVG.hu.
"Life extension by 20 years is a goal that is unlikely to hinder nuclear safety," he said. Paks provide a third of the electricity consumption in the country, the minister recalled.
According to Lantos, Hungary also intends to implement a project to expand the station - we are talking about the construction of another Paks-2 nuclear power plant. The minister acknowledged that there are difficulties in this matter.
On April 11, Hungarian Foreign Minister Petr Szijjarto, meeting with Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev in Moscow, announced an agreement with Russia to amend contracts for the construction and financing of the Paks-2 nuclear power plant to avoid sanctions (European sanctions have not been imposed against the nuclear industry Russia, several countries, including Hungary, opposed such measures). The head of the Prime Minister's office, Gergely Gulyas, later clarified that the changes are "technical" in nature and do not affect the cost of the project, Bloomberg reports.
At the moment, four power units with VVER-440 reactors are operating at the Paks NPP. They were commissioned from 1982 to 1987. It was originally planned that the station would operate for 30 years, but after this time, its service life was extended by 20 years. In December, the Hungarian parliament approved a bill extending the deadline by another two decades, to 2052-2057.
In August, the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority issued Rosatom a permit for the construction of the fifth and sixth power units of the Paks station, which will make up the Paks-2 nuclear power plant. The parties reached an appropriate agreement in 2014, and the project cost was estimated at €12.5 billion.
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