BUDAPEST, October 21. /TASS/. Hungary will expand energy cooperation with the US, in particular in the use of nuclear energy, including the development and installation of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced.
He is now in Washington, where he intends to hold meetings with Congress and the US administration, as well as with the leadership of American companies.
"We are significantly expanding our energy cooperation and will add a very powerful nuclear component to it," the foreign minister said in an interview with Hungarian television channel M1.
Szijjarto noted that Hungary has had a nuclear power plant in Paks for 40 years, generating approximately half of the country's electricity.
"The United States also uses nuclear energy, and in the coming period, Hungarian-American energy cooperation will expand through its active use. In addition to large nuclear power plants, technological development of small modular nuclear power plants has begun," Szijjarto said.
