OREANDA-NEWS. The agreement was signed by the president of ASE Sergey Shmatko and the director general of Paks Josef Kovac in Komarno, a Slovak town near the Slovak-Hungarian border, reported the press-centre of  Atomstroyexport. The objective of the agreement is to ensure effective cooperation for enhancing the safety and efficiency of Paks NPP. The sides are planning to modernize the plant’s 1–4 WWER-440 units with a view to enhance their capacity, to prolong their lives and to introduce new technologies tested at Russian NPPs.


Atomstoryexport will also consult Paks NPP on building units with WWER-1000 reactors. The agreement is based on the recommendations of the 2nd meeting of the Russian-Hungarian intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation in 2006. Atomstroyexport is consistently working to strengthen the positions of Russian nuclear technologies on Central and Eastern European markets.

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Paks is one of the safest and most efficient nuclear power plants in the world. The plant has four WWER units built under a Soviet-time project and launched in 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986. Atomstroyexport CJSC is the leading Russian organization implementing inter-governmental agreements on the construction of nuclear facilities abroad. Presently, it is the only company in the world that is simultaneously building 7 nuclear power units in China, India, Iran and Bulgaria.