Captured by Power
Captured by Power

The Expansion of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant

Author(s): András Deák
Subject(s): Economic history, Political history, Economic policy, Present Times (2010 - today), Public Finances
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Orban;Putyin;Paks;Nuclear Power;Energy Policy;renewable energy sources.
Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of January 2014, the agreement signed by Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Moscow elicited considerable public debate. This debate, however, was quite fragmented. It was not so much the cacophony of genres, or the cavalcade of domestic, foreign, or energy policy arguments, or the ideological or visceral viewpoints that were most striking, but rather the unstructured nature of the debate, and the divergent nature of the questions asked by those debating the subject. Two basic questions should be separated at the outset: First, what kind of energy policy options are there, and how well-founded is the Paks expansion plan in a technical sense? Is there a need for it? Second, what aspects guided the government, and within that the premier and his inner circle, in making this decision?

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