NUCLEAR REACTOR RESTARTED IN SECRET AT PAKS

Last week on Thursday the first tests of the 2nd block of the Paks nuclear power station were started and now the reactor can work with an output which can be connected with the national electricity network, Magyar Nemzet has been informed.

The Paks Nuclear Power Station so far, however, has not issued any official information about the restart, this will be done probably when Béla Turi-Kovács MP (Fidesz), chairman of the parliamentary committee of environment protection makes a visit there. Gyula Fichtinger, deputy director of the National Atomic Energy Office said the 2nd reactor reached the minimal level of output on Thursday and the physical measurements were positive. According to the tests the reactor functioned in a normal way and now the level of output can be raised to 30 pc and the reactor can produce electric energy again.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó