Construction sites. Rosatom steelmakers set about manufacturing a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for Unit 6 of Hungary’s Paks II nuclear power plant. The forging of steel blanks with a total weight of about 600 tonnes began at Rosatom’s production site AEM-SpetsStal. These will be used to make RPV components. “The Paks II NPP project is proceeding on schedule. This is evidenced by the fact that the manufacturing of a long-lead piece of equipment, a reactor pressure vessel for Unit 6, started one year after the beginning of the same production phase for Paks Unit 5,” said AtomStroyExport Vice President and Paks II construction project director Vitaly Polyanin. Paks II is being built to Russia’s latest design specifications and will have two power units equipped with VVER-1200 reactors.