Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced the start of main construction work at the Paks 2 nuclear power station project in Hungary.

Rosatom said its subsidiary Atomstroyexport, the main contractor for the project, had begun excavation work for the main reactor pit for one of the two new plants, Paks-5 and Paks-6.

The excavation covers an area the size of four football fields and the volume of soil to be removed is about one million cubic metres.