Background Located 5 km from Paks, in central Hungary, the Paks Nuclear Power Plant is the first and only operating nuclear power station in Hungary. It has four reactors that produce more than 50 percent of the electrical power generated in the country and meet more than 40 percent of the country’s electric consumption. The Paks NPP was designed to have a 30-year lifetime, but feasibility studies had shown that with some minor repairs and replacements, it was in a very good condition to extend its lifetime. Following the Fukushima I nuclear accidents in March 2011, Hungary’s government said it would conduct a stress test on the Paks Nuclear Power Plant to assess safety, but it wouldn’t abandon plans for lifetime extension and it would also go ahead with plans for its expansion. Un

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