Storage Facility Could Raise Paks 2 Cost By Half
- 10 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
The construction of a storage facility for spent fuel from the Paks nuclear power plant could increase the costs of the planned enlargement of the plant by half, the daily Népszabadság said. Parliament is discussing a resolution on permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel in the country. So far such waste from Paks has been delivered to Russia.
The paper notes, however, that no facilities for indefinite storage of highradiation waste from nuclear power plants operate anywhere in the world, though there are such facilities being built.
Such a facility for spent fuel from the existing four blocks of the nuclear power plant would cost about 1,671 billion forints (EUR 5.62bn), the paper calculated, based on data from the Hungarian Academy of Science and Hungary’s state-owned company for managing radioactive waste RHK.
The academy estimated the cost of additional capacity for spent fuel from a planned upgrade at the Paks plant at 1,150 billion forints.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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