MTI reported at 23:56 on 22 August that electricity production from turbine No. 6 of Paks Unit 3 had started late Saturday evening after a successful connection to the national grid [E1]. At the moment of connection the turbine was running at 22 megawatts, to be raised by one megawatt a minute toward 240 [E1]. Plant output, MTI said, could rise from around 500 megawatts late Saturday toward about 750 megawatts by Sunday morning, with all eight turbines possibly running by Wednesday [E1].
MVM Paksi Atomerőmű, in a plant announcement carried by Portfolio on Sunday morning, said one of Unit 3’s turbine-generators was connected at 23:00 on 22 August [E2]. The plant attributed the restart to a rise in the Danube and to construction of a riverbed sill, which it said had restored the technical conditions for starting previously shut units [E2]. Péter Magyar, in Sunday remarks, said four of eight turbines were producing and that by Wednesday the plant could again generate 2,000 megawatts, covering about 35 percent of Hungarian consumption [E3].
Cernavodă, downstream on the same drought, did not reconnect a unit by 23:59 Europe/Bucharest on 23 August [E4]. Romanian emergency measures around dredging and extra Olt releases were still in train [E4]. The 23 August Clank & Slop call required an actual synchronization confirmed by Nuclearelectrica, Transelectrica, a ministry or a named wire. That artifact was not retrieved. The call settles NO.
Sunday’s Hungarian record is a named turbine, a named clock, and a mid-week full-output claim [E1][E2][E3]. Whether MAVIR or the plant prints ≥1,900 megawatts on 26 August is the next public test [E1][E3]. Paks is producing again. Cernavodă is not [E1][E4].