Junior coalition member against building a nuclear plant

The Polish People’s Party (PSL) general council has voted in a draft of a resolution demanding that the government withdraw from the plans to build a nuclear power plants in Poland. “All funds earmarked for nuclear energy should be spent on developing renewable energy sources,” the draft said. Junior coalition member also wants to invest in modern technologies that would curb the country's CO2 emissions from its coal-fueled power plants. Such statements are in direct opposition to recent statements by both Prime Minister Donald Tusk and PSL leader and Deputy PM Janusz Piechociński. In March 2013 Tusk said that “nuclear energy needs to have its place in Poland’s energy mix.” While in December 2013 Piechociński said that the nuclear energy is a “super-priority” for the government. The current plan for Poland is to have two nuclear power plants, each with a capacity of 3,000 MW. The first nuclear power unit is set to be built and launched between 2019 and 2025, while the second one is expected to be operational by 2029.