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Following talks in Budapest, Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev, and Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade Peter Szijjártó confirmed that work on the construction of new power units at the Paks NPP (Paks II) is proceeding at a rapid pace. 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. The contract was supported by a Russian state loan to finance the majority of the project.

Date: Friday, 15 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-and-hungary-confirm-progress-at-paks-ii-11600771

Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto and Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev say that work on the new Paks II nuclear power plant is progressing well, with production of the melt trap completed in Russia and work on the reactor vessel set to start.

Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Paks-II-aims-for-first-concrete-in-2024,-work-on-r

Slovak power utility Slovenské Elektrárne (SE) hosted a two-day forum, the 5th annual VVER Fuel Forum in Bratislava. The forum on nuclear fuel for VVER 440 and VVER 1000 reactors, which was sponsored by Westinghouse, was attended by representatives of utilities that are potential customers for Westinghouse VVER fuel. These included Ukraine’s Energoatom, Finland’s Fortum, the Czech Republic’s CEZ, Bulgaria’s JE Kozloduy, and Hungary’s nuclear plant operator MVM Paks. The participants exchanged experiences on the procedure for implementing fuel from Westinghouse for operating VVER-440 and VVER-1000 reactors.

Date: Thursday, 29 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsslovakia-hosts-westinghouse-sponsored-vver-nuclear-fuel-forum-11554179

The International Energy Agency (IEA) in its latest report, Electricity 2024, dedicates a significant amount of space to nuclear power – a departure from its previous studies which treated it as peripheral. In its press release on the new report, IEA says the increase in electricity generation from renewables and nuclear "appears to be pushing the power sector's emissions into structural decline". Over the next three years, low-emissions generation is set to rise at twice the annual growth rate between 2018 and 2023. Global emissions from electricity generation are expected to decrease by 2.4% in 2024, followed by smaller declines in 2025 and 2026.

Date: Friday, 26 January 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiea-acknowledges-significance-of-nuclear-energy-in-new-report-11463539

At the 28th Conference of the Parties to the original 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), 22 countries signed a declaration supporting tripling nuclear energy capacity by 2050. The document was signed by the heads of state, or senior officials, from Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the USA. China and Russia did not sign, although they have the world’s fastest growing and most ambitious nuclear power programmes.

Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscop28-22-countries-target-tripling-global-nuclear-energy-capacity-by-2050-11347824

The Hungarian Parliament has reportedly supported an amendment to the country's nuclear energy policy that would allow alternative sources to be used for fuel for the Paks nuclear power plant, which has until now relied on Russian-supplied fuel.

Date: Saturday, 25 November 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hungary-to-consider-alternative-sources-for-nuclea

Workers at the Paks II NPP under construction in Hungary have begun to strengthen the soil in pits under Paks units 5&6 (also known as Paks II units 1&2), Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade Péter Szijjártó told a hearing of the Hungarian National Assembly’s Committee on Sustainable Development. "About 1.7m cubic metres of land were removed from the boiler houses to enable soil strengthening , which is considered a key stage in preparing for the start of plant construction to ensure stability and mitigate any possible seismic effects. The Hungarian regulator has issued all the necessary permits for the work.

Date: Saturday, 11 November 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-progress-at-paks-ii-11287190

The first VVER-440 fuel produced by US-based Westinghouse at its Swedish facility has been loaded into one of the reactors at Ukraine’s Rivne NPP. It was not clear which of the units – 1 or 2 – received the fuel, which reportedly will initially be mixed with the existing fuel supplied by Russia’s TVEL. Ukraine’s target, however, is to end the use of Russian-supplied fuel as soon as possible.

Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newswestinghouse-vver-440-fuel-loaded-at-ukraines-rivne-npp-11140465

Westinghouse fuel has been loaded into a VVER-440 reactor for the first time, at Ukraine's Rivne nuclear power plant.

Date: Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse-VVER-440-fuel-loaded-into-reactor