Poland is considering the site of Europe’s largest coal-fired power station as a location for a nuclear plant, part of Warsaw’s ambitious reactor new-build programme, Piotr Naimski, secretary of state for strategic energy infrastructure, told local RMF FM radio.
Mr Naimski said Poland’s first two or three units will be built at one of two locations – Lubiatowo-Kopalino or Zarnowiec – in the northern province of Pomerania near the Baltic coast. He said Belchatow, in central Poland, could be chosen as a further location with a possible third site at another coal-fired station – Patnow, about 70 km west of Belchatow.
Poland wants to build from 6,000 to 9,000 MW of installed nuclear capacity based on proven, large-scale, pressurised water nuclear reactors of Generation III and III+ designs. Commercial operation of a first nuclear reactor unit in a proposed set of six is earmarked for 2033.
According to Mr Naimski, the six units will be “most likely” deployed at two or even three sites in Poland, depending on localisation studies, which are under way.
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