Rolls-Royce has signed an MoU with Hungarian state-owned MVM OVIT National Power Line Company Ltd, part of the MVM Group, to explore how they can work together on the provision and maintenance of instrumentation and control systems for two new Russian-design VVER-1200 pressurised water reactors planned for the Paks site in Hungary.
Rolls-Royce’s VVER experience includes modernising a range of safety-class I&C systems at the two Loviisa VVER-440 units in Finland. Paks currently comprises four Russian-supplied VVER-440 PWRs, which became operational between 1982 and 1987 and account for as much as half of Hungary’s indigenous electricity production. An inter-governmental agreement signed in early 2014 would see Russian enterprises and their international sub-contractors supply the two new VVER-1200 units at Paks.
