The first concrete may be poured on 5 February at the Paks II construction site.

All conditions are in place for the first concrete to be poured in February on the Paks nuclear power plant investment project , announced Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on Tuesday in Budapest.

According to a statement from the ministry, following a telephone conversation with Alexei Likhachev, CEO of Russian nuclear energy company Roszatom, the minister reported that the first concrete for the Paks investment project could be poured on 5 February.

„The reinforced concrete structure has been completed, and our own concrete mixing plant has also become operational at the Paks nuclear power plant site, which is necessary to produce the special concrete needed to begin the actual physical construction of the nuclear power plant.”

- he highlighted.

„All conditions are now in place for the first concrete to be poured, and preparatory work is proceeding according to the originally defined schedule,” he said. He then pointed out that the National Atomic Energy Authority had issued all existing and necessary permits, and that the technical and technological conditions had also been met.