Manufacturing. AEM SpetsStal (part of Rosatom’s power engineering division) commenced with the manufacturing of reactor equipment for Unit 1 of Hungary’s Paks II nuclear power plant. “We are working to ensure that the new power units at Paks will be connected to the grid by the early 2030s. The work is simultaneously underway at the construction site in Hungary and thousands of kilometers away from it, in Saint Petersburg. It is important for us, after the start of casting, to have closely watched the initial stages of production of RPV shells,” Paks II Chairman and CEO Gergely Jákli said during the production commencement ceremony. The shells are essential structural elements of the reactor pressure vessel. They are empty cylinders that are welded together. Rosatom is building two power units with VVER-1200 reactors at the Hungarian Paks II NPP. First concrete for Unit 1 is scheduled to be poured before the year-end.