BUDAPEST, March 12. /TASS/. Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Peter Szijjarto is scheduled to meet on Tuesday with head of the Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev, in Budapest.

A TASS correspondent reported earlier citing diplomatic sources that Szijjarto and Likhachev were set to discuss the construction of the Paks-2 nuclear power plant (NPP) in Hungary.

The Paks NPP, which was built with Soviet technologies, and which uses Russian nuclear fuel, provides half of all generated and one third of consumed electricity in Hungary. At present, four power units with VVER-440 reactors operate at the station built about 100 kilometers south of Budapest on the banks of the Danube.

Currently, preparations are underway for the construction of two new power units designed by Rosatom. At the same time, preparations are underway for the construction of facilities as part of the second stage of the Rosatom project.

Specifically, those new units are called Paks-2. The Hungarian government expects that after two new VVER-1200 nuclear reactors are commissioned, the plant's capacity will increase from its current levels of 2,000 MW to 4,400 MW.

On November 14, head of the Rosatom state corporation, Alexey Likhachev met with Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations of Hungary, Peter Szijjarto.