Poland’s national-conservative government now wants to go big in nuclear power. It plans to build six nuclear power plants by 2043. The first nuclear power plant on Polish soil is expected to be located in Slajszewo on the Baltic Sea, northwest of Gdansk.
According to the plans, construction of the first reactor block should start in 2026 at the latest. It must then go online in 2033. At the beginning of November, the American company Westinghouse was awarded the contract for the project. On the sidelines of US President Joe Biden’s visit, who arrived in Warsaw on Wednesday, representatives from Poland and Westinghouse signed a construction contract.
The agreement governs preliminary planning work for the nuclear power plant, the PAP news agency reported on Wednesday. The contract between the Polish Nuclear Power Plants (PEJ) is intended to allow Westinghouse to begin preliminary design work before entering into an implementation contract.
Cooperation agreement with the US
The basis is a cooperation agreement between Washington and Warsaw on the civil use of nuclear energy from 2020. The construction costs are expected to be between 19 and 21 billion dollars (almost 18 and 19.7 billion euros), Westinghouse wants to provide loans from 17 billion dollars (almost 16 billion euros) to the Polish government.
Source: Krone
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