PM Péter Magyar: Paks NPP May Operate Longer than Thought
Authorities say voluntary power cuts saved 700 megawatts as engineers work to keep the plant’s last turbine running safely.
- Hungary has temporarily avoided a complete shutdown of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, with Prime Minister Péter Magyar stating the facility's final 240-megawatt turbine should remain in operation through Monday and possibly Tuesday.
- The Danube's water level at Paks has fallen to minus 137 centimetres, below the 134 centimetres shutdown threshold, with experts expecting the first total stoppage in the facility's 44-year history.
- Magyar praised households, businesses, and authorities for reducing electricity consumption by 700 megawatts on Sunday, saving the equivalent of one and a half Paks reactor units.
- Agnes Forsthoffer invited parliamentary party group leaders to a meeting on Monday regarding the heatwave, with the prime minister and group leaders accepting the invitation to discuss the government's response.
- The prime minister stressed, "The full guarantee of nuclear safety is a basic expectation from which no one can deviate," as the five most critical days begin with record temperatures forecast.
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The last turbine in the Paksu nuclear power plant produces electricity stably, and the water level has not changed.
Péter Magyar said that the last operating turbine in Paks continues to produce stably, while the water level of the Danube has not changed.
The last turbine in Paks has still not been shut down.
The extreme heat slows down Danube traffic and threatens to overload Hungary's electricity grid. Engineers keep Paks on the grid thanks to reduced cooling water requirements for the time being.
The Hungarian Prime Minister checked in from the Nuclear Power Plant in Paks, where the water level had minimally increased overnight.
The Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary will be able to continue operating in its reduced capacity until Monday or Tuesday, relieving the pressure on the country's electricity grid, which will face a "critical" period of five days from Monday, said Prime Minister Peter Magyar. Read also: Hungary warns that low levels of the Danube can stop its main nuclear power plant for weeks Record heat spreads across the Korean Peninsula, and authorities exp…
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