Poland / Officials Meet President To Discuss ‘Breakthrough’ Investment In Patnow Coal Site Nuclear Reactors

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Officials Meet President To Discuss ‘Breakthrough’ Investment In Patnow Coal Site Nuclear Reactors
The Patnow coal plant in central Poland. Courtesy Tomasz Krzykala/Wikimeda.
Representatives of Poland’s nuclear project company PGE, energy company ZE PAK and South Korea’s state-owned Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company (KHNP) have met president Andrzej Duda and deputy prime minister Jacek Sasin to discuss a potential “breakthrough investment” in plans to build nuclear reactors at a coal site.

PGE gave no details of the discussions, but said they had taken place at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which ended on 20 January.

The company said the exact completion date for the coal site project, at the ZE PAK-owned Patnow plant in central Poland, has not been set, but “the determination of all parties involved and the potential of their expertise allows us to consider the unofficial deadline of 10 to 13 years as very plausible”.

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