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The first large-scale nuclear power plant component - the core catcher - has been delivered from Russia to the construction site of the Paks II plant in Hungary.

Date: Saturday, 03 August 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Core-catcher-delivered-to-Paks-II-site

Belarusian Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto have held talks and agreed on the next steps in cooperation over their nuclear energy plants.

Date: Thursday, 30 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hungary-and-Belarus-sign-roadmap-for-nuclear-energ

During Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent visit to Hungary – the third stop in his five-day visit to Europe after France and Serbia – a memorandum of understanding on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy was signed by the China Atomic Energy Authority and Hungary's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was one of 18 agreements covering a range of subjects.

Date: Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshungary-and-china-sign-nuclear-energy-cooperation-agreement-11767506

A memorandum of understanding on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy has been signed by the China Atomic Energy Authority and Hungary's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Date: Saturday, 11 May 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hungary-and-China-sign-nuclear-cooperation-agreeme

One of the two pieces of equipment for the Paks II NPP project – the core melt trap – has already been completed, and production of the reactor pressure vessel has now begun in St Petersburg, “which is a real milestone for the expansion of Paks” Hungarian Foreign and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó told a press conference in Budapest. The melt trap had been completed ahead of schedule and would be delivered to Hungary in the summer, he added.

Date: Thursday, 02 May 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskey-equipment-for-paks-ii-completed-11726259

Professor Tim Tinsley outlines how material extracted from the UK's legacy nuclear material is being used in pioneering cancer treatments and for powering future space missions - and considers whether long-term disposal plans now need to take into account the current and potential future value in the material.

Date: Tuesday, 02 April 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Podcast-How-nuclear-waste-can-save-lives-(and-powe

Addressing Atomexpo 2024 in Sochi, southern Russia, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó called for nuclear energy to remain a field of international cooperation, and expressed regret that the field was riddled with ideological debates. “As long as infrastructure determines energy cooperation, ideology should have nothing to do with [it],” he said. He added that, whereas nuclear energy had been “a victim of ideology” recently, Europe had “overcome” discrimination, “thanks mostly to the fact that France is a pro-nuclear country”. He added: “We were able to win our debates in Europe and make it recognised that generating electricity in a nuclear way is sustainable, safe and cheap.”

Date: Thursday, 28 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsszijjrt-criticises-politicisation-of-nuclear-energy-11635619

World leaders gathered in Brussels at the first ever Nuclear Energy Summit co-chaired by the Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander De Croo and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi. The Summit was the highest-level meeting to date exclusively focused on the topic of nuclear energy. It followed inclusion of nuclear energy in the Global Stocktake agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai in December 2023 and the launch of the IAEA’s Atoms4NetZero initiative.

Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-energy-summit-attracts-world-leaders-11632691

Specialists from Russia’s Atomstroyexport (ASE - part of Rosatom’s Engineering Division and general contractor) and representatives of the Hungary’s Paks II have begun acceptance checks for a core melt localisation device (melt trap) for the fifth unit at the Paks NPP (also known as Paks II unit 1). The Paks II project was launched in 2014 by an inter-governmental agreement between Hungary and Russia for two VVER-1200 reactors (units 5&6) to be supplied by Rosatom.

Date: Saturday, 23 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmelt-trap-completed-for-paks-ii-11623025