Paks II Project Reaches Another Milestone

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Soil consolidation under the site of the number five block of the Paks nuclear power plant has finished and is starting for the number six block, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a post on Facebook on Monday.

Advancing past the milestone, Szijjártó said he had called Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev to discuss important tasks in the coming weeks to accelerate the Paks II project, according to a report by news agency MTI.

He added that 24,000 piles had been drilled into the ground, one-third of the total.

More than 1,000 people are working at the site in central Hungary and that number will rise significantly in the future, he said.

Rosatom is the general contractor for the construction of an additional two blocks at Paks, Hungary’s only commercial nuclear power plant.

The plant’s existing four blocks account for about half of Hungary’s electricity generation.

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