South Korea is actively looking to engage local industry in Poland’s first nuclear power programme as industry minister Lee Chang-yang is this week touring Poland and the Czech Republic to promote, among other things, domestically developed nuclear technologies.
In April 2022, KHNP (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power), a company owned by the state-owned Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco), submitted a bid to Poland to build six APR-1400 reactor units with a total capacity of 8.4 GW. Work on the first reactor would take 10 years, with construction taking six years, earlier reports have said.
In April 2022, KHNP (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power), a company owned by the state-owned Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco), submitted a bid to Poland to build six APR-1400 reactor units with a total capacity of 8.4 GW. Work on the first reactor would take 10 years, with construction taking six years, earlier reports have said.
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