US-based Westinghouse is preparing to begin discussions on details of Poland’s project to build its first commercial nuclear power station.

Miroslaw Kowalik, head of Westinghouse’s Polish branch, said the company would have talks with Polish nuclear project company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) as the next step in Warsaw’s move to build three Westinghouse-made AP1000 pressurised water reactor units at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site in the northern province of Pomerania.

Mr Kowalik said the basis of the discussions with PEJ will be the front-end engineering and design (Feed) study competed in June by Westinghouse and Bechtel and a concept execution report presented by the US government in September.