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Important milestone reached in the Paks nuclear power plant project
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The National Atomic Energy Authority (OAH) has issued the implementation licence for the upgrade of Hungary’s sole nuclear power plant in Paks, paving the way for the construction stage of the project, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said on Friday, adding that the plant’s two new reactor blocks could be operational by 2030.
The project has arrived at “a hugely important milestone”, as projects of this nature need to obtain thousands of permits, out of which this latest one is the most important, the foreign ministry cited Péter Szijjártó as saying on Facebook.
The new licence will allow the upgrade project to transition from the preparatory stage to the implementation stage, of which there will be visible signs at the construction site, Szijjártó said. The more than 400,000-page licence request had been under review by Hungarian and international experts for two years before being approved.
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