MOSCOW, December 1. /TASS/. Hungary will continue purchasing fuel for Paks NPP from Russia, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with Izvestia daily.

Asked about continuation of purchases of fuel for the NPP from Russia, the minister said: "Of course, no question. We are very much satisfied with cooperation in the nuclear energy sector, there are no reasons to change anything. We are also satisfied with progress in the construction of new nuclear units. We have well-established cooperation with Rosatom. And we are currently satisfied with fuel supplies."

The Paks NPP plant, built by Soviet specialists in the 1980s and powered by Russian nuclear fuel, provides half of all electricity generated and a third of electricity consumed in Hungary. Currently four VVER-440 pressurized water reactors are in operation at the Paks NPP, located on the bank of the Danube 100 kilometers south of Budapest. The construction of a second stage of the plant - its fifth and sixth units - is in progress underway. Moscow has confirmed its readiness to finance the Paks-2 project, estimated at 12.5 bln euros, which from the very beginning was supposed to be 80%-funded with a Russian loan. According to preliminary calculations, after the commissioning of two new VVER-1200 reactors, the plant's capacity will increase from the current 2,000 megawatts to 4,400 megawatts.