Polish and U.S. authorities haveactually signed an contract in Warsaw to relocation forward with the buildingandconstruction of Poland’s initially nuclear power plant
ByThe Associated Press
September 27, 2023, 10: 09 AM
FILE – Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki talks to reporters as he showsup for the 3rd EU-CELAC top in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday, July 18,2023 Polish and U.S. authorities signed an contract Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023 in Warsaw for the buildingandconstruction of Poland’s initially nuclear power plant, part of an effort by the Central European country to relocation away from contaminating fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — Polish and U.S. authorities signed an contract Wednesday in Warsaw to relocation forward with the buildingandconstruction of Poland’s initially nuclear power plant as part of an effort by the Central European country to relocation away from contaminating fossil fuels.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the offer to develop the plant at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino website in the Pomerania area near the Baltic Sea the start of a brand-new chapter for Poland, and explained nuclear energy as a steady and tidy energy source.
“The just tidy, steady energy source that is highly shown and confirmed in terms of security is nuclear energy, which is having its huge day today,” he stated at the event.
Morawiecki’s federalgovernment had revealed last year that it hadactually picked the U.S. as its partner for the task.
A consortium made up of Westinghouse and Bechtel signed the contract with the Polish state-owned energy supervising the nuclear program, Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ).
The prepared website is about 280 kilometers (175 miles) from the border with Germany, which shut its la