Rosatom head says Paks expansion on schedule

Budapest, September 17 (MTI) – The project to build two new reactor blocks at Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant is running according to schedule and it is possible additional blocks will be built later, head of the Russian nuclear energy company Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko told the press in Budapest on Tuesday.

“There is a detailed schedule and we will strictly keep to all regulations and rules,” Russian news agency quoted Kiriyenko as saying. “An environmental impact study will be prepared for the project and licensing is already under way; it will be implemented piecemeal,” he added.

“Everything is proceeding according to schedule and even slightly faster,” he added.

“The Hungarian economy is developing rather fast and I would not exclude the possibility that once the investment project is successfully completed, the Hungarian government will decide to build additional blocks. For the time being, such a decision has not been made, but we will react to any decisions in line with the demand,” he said.

Kiriyenko said the reactors in Paks would be built with “the most up to date, post-Fukushima-type technology” and with at least 60 years guaranteed life expectancy.

Commenting on the transit of spent fuel rods via Ukraine, he said this was working smoothly and going according to plans.

Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters