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Application submitted for Paks II containment
An application to build the containment building of the first new unit at Hungary's Paks II nuclear power plant has been submitted. Project company Atomerőmű Zrt said it should be approved within 150 days. Meanwhile, Hungary's nuclear regulator has assumed a new, more independent, legal status.
read more... 05/01/2022
Hungary and Poland plan nuclear to replace coal
Hungary is now the sixth European country to bring forward its coal phaseout plan, announcing that it will shut its last remaining coal plant in 2025. Meanwhile Poland says its first nuclear power unit will be built in Gdansk and the second one probably at the site of its Belchatów coal plant.
read more... 08/03/2021
Hungary brings coal exit forward by five years
The country’s last coal power plant will be shut down in 2025 instead of 2030, Hungary’s secretary of state for EU affairs announced earlier this week.
read more... 05/03/2021
how geothermal could help eastern EU countries ditch fossil fuels
Countries like Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Romania and Croatia sit over the Pannonian basin, which has huge potential for geothermal energy and is over 10°C per kilometre hotter than the European average, making them a prime location for geothermal deployment.
read more... 24/02/2021
Hungary is Ukraine's main gas re-export route
Hungary has been the main destination for gas re-exported from Ukrainian storages since the start of November.
read more... 11/12/2020