Poland’s state-owned power utility PGE will remain technologically neutral in the initial studies for the siting of Poland’s second nuclear power station, the company’s chief executive Dariusz Marzec told the Baltic Nuclear Energy Forum (BNEF) in Gdansk.

Marzec said the two preferred locations for the country’s second nuclear station, Belchatow and Konin, both in central Poland, will first be examined for any factors which could potentially preclude them from hosting a nuclear facility, including soil, ground, seismic factors and grid connectivity.

He said that a following step would be to study the two sites against the requirements of specific technologies.