US-based small modular reactor developer NuScale Power has signed a three-way memorandum of understanding with Poland’s KGHM Polska Miedź and PBE Molecule to explore the deployment of NuScale’s small modular reactor technology to repurpose or replace existing coal-fired power plants and provide electricity and heat for KGHM’s industrial processes in Poland.

KGHM is a Poland-based multinational in copper and silver production and PBE is a Poland-based consultancy which specialises in business engineering advisory. NuScale said the agreement demonstrates international interest in its SMR technology.

Under the MOU, NuScale will support KGHM and PBE’s examination of NuScale’s SMR technology as a “repowering/repurposing solution” for existing coal-fuelled power plants and more broadly for new nuclear plants, as well as for energy in support of industrial operations in Poland.