Poland wants to use nuclear energy to reduce dependence on fossil energy resources.
The agreement between Poland and South Korea provides for the development of a plan for the construction of a nuclear power plant in the village of Patnow in southwestern Poland. Two South Korean-made nuclear reactors will be installed at the plant.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki revealed that the government plans to build three nuclear power plants, for a total of six nuclear reactors. Construction of the first nuclear power plant is expected to start no earlier than 2026.
Poland currently depends on the burning of coal in thermal power plants for electricity generation, but the European Union is demanding that Poland gradually abandon this environmentally harmful source of energy.
The nuclear energy development plan foresees that the nuclear power plant can produce between 25% and 36% of Poland’s electricity.
South Korea has offered to build six reactors for 26 billion euros, while the US offer is 31.3 billion dollars.
Vladislavs Melcharskis, a professor at Lodz Technical University, believes the speech on nuclear energy development in Poland is more of a pre-election campaign to divert attention from current energy problems, such as coal shortages.
The representative of the environmental protection organization “Greenpeace” Jan Haverkamp is also skeptical about the development of nuclear energy in Poland, which in conversation with “Deutsche Welle” predicts that, due to high costs, Poland’s chances of starting a nuclear power plant by 2050 are less than 1%.
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