Hungary and Russia will finalise this week an amendment of their contract to expand the Paks nuclear power station, foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said.

The changes, which Russia’s finance minister will sign this week after Hungary’s ratification, will open the way to accelerate the expansion project, Szijjarto said on Facebook after meeting Alexey Likhachev, chief executive officer of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, in Budapest on Monday (5 June).

Neither side has detailed the specific changes that are being made to the contract.