The chief executive of Poland’s state energy group PGE has called on South Korea’s Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) to take about a half of the investment share in a proposed APR-1400 nuclear power station in central Poland.

Local media reported Wojciech Dabrowski, Dabrowski as telling a conference that PGE hopes KHNP will take a 49% stake in the project, which is to be run by PGE PAK Energia Jadrowa a joint venture between PGE and private energy company ZE PAK.

The establishment of PGE PAK Energia Jadrowa was announced earlier this month. The new company will be responsible of all aspects of the project to build at least two South Korean APR-1400 pressurised water reactor units at the Patnow coal plant site, including an initial feasibility study, site surveys, an environmental impact assessment, licensing procedures and securing of financing.