State secretary Levente Magyar said: "Our colleagues are pouring concrete. More than a thousand tonnes of steel have already been installed, and soon this will also be covered with concrete," he said.

"As we promised, this power plant will be completed on schedule despite all the difficulties that have hindered the work over the past ten years," he added.

"Let's not forget that the Russia-Ukraine war broke out not in 2022, but as early as 2014, and we signed the agreement with the Russians to build this nuclear power plant just a year or two before that," he said.

He added that throughout the entire duration of the project, there had been an armed conflict in eastern Europe, "one of the parties to which is the very state whose technology we will use to carry out this project".

Magyar said that in addition to Russian companies, firms from the United States, Germany, France, and a dozen other Western countries were also participating in the construction and in supplying technology.

"So this is an international project, and it is in the interest of all parties involved that it be completed as soon as possible. The current schedule perfectly aligns with this goal; we are on the best possible path towards ensuring that a second nuclear power plant will guarantee Hungary's energy security within the foreseeable future," he said.

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