Press release The HAEA issued operation licence for uprated power of Unit 2 of the Paks NPP

The Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority issued the licence for the operation of unit 2 with uprated power on 23 June 2009. The power of unit 2 was uprated to 108% thus the nominal electrical capacity of the unit has reached 500 MW. Unit 4 has been operating with uprated power since September 2007 while unit 1 since September 2008.

The licence for the necessary technological modifications for uprating unit 2 was issued in 2008 and the commissioning program for uprating was successfully carried out between November 2008 and the end of January 2009. Since then the unit has been operated with uprated power in trial mode. During this trial operation there was not any incident or failure which can be connected to the uprating. The licence is valid till the end of the design lifetime of unit 2, till 31 December 2014. After 2014 unit 2 can be operated only with a new licence for lifetime-extension.