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Rosatom CEO Vows Construction of Hungary's Paks-2 Nuclear Plant to Be 'Special Priority'

The Paks-2 nuclear power plant construction project in Hungary will be a "special priority" for Rosatom, the head of the state corporation, Alexey Likhachev, told reporters in Cairo on Tuesday.
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"Additional mobilization will also be necessary to move the Paks-2 project forward in Hungary. But we can promise that it will remain our special priority — just as it was during the most difficult years. This project has faced a pandemic, sanctions, and direct pressure, and it has withstood it all," Likhachev stressed.
Rosatom expects the new Hungarian government to back the Paks 2 nuclear power plant project with confidence, he said.

"We are open and expect the same level of trust in carrying out this project — the Paks-2 nuclear plant. This is not a Russian project. It is a project purely in the interests of the Hungarian people. More than 70% of Hungary's energy mix will be sustainable thanks to nuclear electricity. That means not only securing our own energy supply but also creating the opportunity to export what is most expensive in Europe today — energy in general, and electric power in particular," Likhachev told reporters.

The Zaporozhye nuclear facility lost power after the sole high-voltage line, Ferrosplavnaya-1, was struck, he pointed out.

"One of the results of that shelling — which came after the Easter truce — was the loss of the only power supply line at the time, Ferrosplavnaya. Automatically, the backup systems kicked in. The personnel worked brilliantly, connecting the station to mobile power sources and standby diesel generators," Likhachev noted.

The complete loss of the external power supply at the Zaporozhye nuclear facility marked the 14th such incident, the Rosatom chief added, noting that IAEA inspectors had recorded it.
By refusing to build the Hanhikivi nuclear power plant with Russia, Finland has doomed its vast economic region to an economic depression, the Rosatom CEO emphasized.
"Finland showed how such an inept government approach to nuclear energy simply ruined a huge project and doomed a huge economic region of eastern Finland to depression," Likhachev said.
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