“Poland will need to seek financial partners to help construction of the country’s second nuclear power plant,” said Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk while commenting on the further development of the Polish nuclear programme. 

The current strategy of the Polish Nuclear Power Programme is aimed at the construction of two nuclear power plants with a total capacity of 6-9 GW, with 100 per cent ownership by the State Treasury. The previous Polish government of conservative Law and Justice selected the US Westinghouse-Bechtel consortium as the main partner for the first power plant.

Poland already requested the EC’s approval of state aid for its first nuclear power plant programme which is expected to be worth around PLN 60 billion (EUR 14 bln) in state aid.

„When it comes to the first nuclear power plant, we are taking on almost the entire financial burden ourselves. When it comes to the second one, we need to look for financial partners,” Prime Minister Tusk said during the European Forum for New Ideas, a conference held in Sopot.

„I am a realist. We really want to build it, but we also need real funds for that,” Tusk said. „The key question still concerns its second location,” PM Tusk added

The first Polish nuclear power plant is to be located at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site in the northern Pomorskie province, by the Baltic coast. 

The construction process is set to start in 2026, and the first AP1000 reactor using the US technology developed by Westinghouse should start operating in 2033.

Source: PAP

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Tomasz Modrzejewski