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Paks II: Hungarian government violates EU law by continued funding – Energiaklub Climate Policy Institute has initiated a legality supervision procedure in court
The Energiaklub Climate Policy Institute has requested the Registry Court of the Szekszárd Regional Court to conduct a legality supervision procedure concerning the nearly HUF 80 billion capital increase of Paks II Nuclear Power Plant Private Limited Company, registered in December 2025. In Energiaklub’s view, the capital increase may violate EU law as it may…
France starts EIA for lifetime extension of 900 MW reactor fleet
In France, four old reactors are submitted to an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): Chinon-B, Gravelines 2 and 4 and Bugey-3. Both the Espoo Convention and the EIA Directive of the EU require the assessment of alternatives of a project. But no alternatives were assessed. This procedure neither presented energy production alternatives nor a long-term prognosis…
Nuclear Power Plant Paks II: The nuclear industry had a party today, with UN agency IAEA’s Grossi und Rosatom’s Likhachev
The occasion for the guests coming together at the construction pits of the Paks 5&6 nuclear reactors was the official construction start. At second glance this is not so much a reason for celebrations, because 2025 was the year Paks 5 was supposed to celebrate start of operations, not construction start. Also present: IAEA General…