Hungary will be able to stop importing electricity and possibly even to start exporting it to neighboring countries once the new power units of the Paks nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as Paks-2, are launched, the office of the NPP s general director told Sputnik on Wednesday.
Around 800 Ukrainian specialists are still working at occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), refusing to sign contracts with Russia’s Rosatom, Petro Kotin, the President of Ukraine’s nuclear operator Energoatom, told Ukrainian TV broadcasters on Nov. 14.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that the European Union is making a big mistake by not introducing sanctions against Rosatom, although Ukraine has proposed a solution to break the Russian monopoly on the supply of fuel to nuclear power plants in EU countries.