Poland and South Korea are planning to sign a cooperation agreement on nuclear energy by mid-2023, while an intergovernmental steering committee on a proposed new-build project is to be called in March, according to Jacek Sasin, Warsaw’s deputy prime-minister in charge of state assets.

Sasin told Radio ZET that negotiations with the South Korean side are “progressing very well and quickly”.

In October 2022, the private Polish energy company ZE PAK and state-controlled Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) signed a letter of intent with Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) for the proposed deployment of KHNP’s APR-1400 pressurised water reactor (PWR) technology at the central Patnow site, currently home of coal-fired generation.

The project will be developed as a private enterprise and will not be run by the government under its 2020 nuclear energy programme. PGE is, however, state-controlled.