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Poland / South Korea Planning To Submit Offer For Ambitious Nuclear Programme

By David Dalton
22 October 2021

South Korea Planning To Submit Offer For Ambitious Nuclear Programme
State-owned nuclear company Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) plans to submit an offer to the Polish government to build nuclear power plants in the first quarter of 2022, or even earlier, reports in Poland said.

The reports quoted KHNP as saying the deadline for submitting the offer will be decided in talks with the Polish government.

KHNP said it has established an expert group to prepare “an optimal and integrated proposal for the Polish project to build a new nuclear power plant”.

KHNP said it has proven its technology with the construction of the Barakah power station in the United Arab Emirates, for which it supplied four 1,345 MW APR-1400 nuclear plants. The first of those began commercial operation in April. “South Korea will offer the Polish side a similar project, on preferential terms,”, the company said.

Earlier this month, France’s majority state-owned energy company EDF submitted a preliminary offer to the Polish government for the construction of four to six EPR nuclear power plants at two or three different locations in Poland.

Poland wants to build from 6,000 to 9,000 MW of installed nuclear capacity based on proven, large-scale, pressurised water nuclear reactors of the Generation III and III+ design. Commercial operation of a first nuclear reactor unit in a proposed set of six is earmarked for 2033.

The government has not yet announced a technology or investor tender for the project. US-based Westinghouse has also expressed its formal interest in Warsaw’s nuclear plans.

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