Poland / Key Meeting Scheduled In Washington As Warsaw Nuclear Plans Gather Momentum

US-based Westinghouse hoping for major AP1000 reactor new-build contract
Key Meeting Scheduled In Washington As Warsaw Nuclear Plans Gather Momentum
US-based Westinghouse is hoping to win a major AP1000 reactor new-build contract from Poland.
Poland’s deputy prime minister Jacek Sasin and minister of climate and environment Anna Moskwa are to visit the US for a meeting that could lead to details being finalised for a contract to build Poland’s first nuclear power station.

Press reports in Poland said the meeting is scheduled for this weekend with US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm.

Business Insider Polska reported that the eastern European country’s first nuclear plants will be AP1000 units supplied by Westinghouse for a site in in Lubiatowo-Kopalino in Pomerania, northern Poland.

Poland has been planning to build six nuclear plants, with France’s EDF and South Korea’s Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) also in the running.

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