Expansion
On 30 March 2009 the National Assembly of Hungary gave its principal consent by votes 330 for, 6 against and 10 abstained to the preparation works of the possible new units. On 26 February 2010 the owner state company MVM Group decided the expansion with about 2000 billion Hungarian Forints price. On 17 January 2011 Tamás Fellegi, the National Developmental Minister of Hungary discussed with Sergey Kiriyenko (Rosatom) and Deputy Finance Minister of Russia Dmitriy Pankin in Moscow about Paks Nuclear Power Plant expansion.
On 18 June 2012 the Hungarian government ranked Paks expansion as a "high priority project of the national economy", in this context established a committee (Nuclear Power Governmental Committee) for prepare the factual steps. The Nuclear Power Governmental Committee is headed by Viktor Orbán (Prime Minister) and has two members; György Matolcsy (Minister of National Economy) and Lászlóné Németh (the new National Developmental Minister). According to the latest plans of the MVM Group tender will take up in 2012, the construction in 2017 and the first new unit will be complete in 2023.
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