The estimated capital expenditure for the first BWRX-300 small modular reactor unit deployed in Poland at the end of the decade will be €1.1bn with 50 percent of this spent domestically, a conference in Warsaw heard.
About 33 percent of the total will be spent by plant developer GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) outside Poland and 17 percent will be spent on design, analysis, licensing, logistics and training.
Prof. Waclaw Gudowski, advisor to the Polish company Synthos Green Energy, told the inaugural conference of the Desire project said the BWRX-300 technology offers lower investment costs, a levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) of about €50/MWh and a shorter investment process than large-scale nuclear power plants.
About 33 percent of the total will be spent by plant developer GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) outside Poland and 17 percent will be spent on design, analysis, licensing, logistics and training.
Prof. Waclaw Gudowski, advisor to the Polish company Synthos Green Energy, told the inaugural conference of the Desire project said the BWRX-300 technology offers lower investment costs, a levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) of about €50/MWh and a shorter investment process than large-scale nuclear power plants.
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