Poland / Large Energy Companies To Explore New Nuclear Plant Construction With South Korea’s KHNP

Move comes days after Westinghouse named supplier of first nuclear plants
Large Energy Companies To Explore New Nuclear Plant Construction With South Korea’s KHNP
A bilateral meeting took place on 31 October in the South Korean capital Seoul. Image courtesy Polish ministry of state assets.
Polish energy companies ZE PAK and PGE (Polska Grupa Energetyczna) and the Polish ministry of state assets signed today a letter of intent with South Korea’s Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) on the proposed construction of a nuclear power station at the central Patnow site, the companies said in separate statements.

According to the statements, the aim of the agreement is to assess the available options and to develop by 2022 preliminary plans for the deployment of KHNP’s APR-1400 pressurised water reactor (PWR) technology at Patnow, which currently houses a 1,674-MW coal-fired plant owned by private firm ZE PAK.

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