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GULYÁS: UPGRADED PAKS NUCLEAR PLANT COULD START OPERATING AROUND 2032

 

If construction on the expansion of Hungary’s Paks nuclear power station starts next year, it is realistic that the plant can start operating around 2032, Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, said at a forum in Szekszárd, in southern Hungary. In response to a question at a roundtable organised by Mathias Corvinus Collegium on Thursday, Gulyás said one difficulty was that the American and German companies were among suppliers that still wanted to be part of the project, but this required the permission of the respective state. “Let’s see if Siemens gets this,” he said. Siemens, he added, was “not essential” and 3-4 western European companies could step in if it came to it.
Meanwhile, he said that if Ukraine did not amend its language and education law that makes use of the Hungarian language difficult its route to joining NATO and the EU would be blocked. But he welcomed Ukraine’s recent offer to agree on changing the laws bilaterally as “good news”.