New PM thinks Poland should go nuclear

Recently Finland has decided to build one, France, the Netherlands and the UK are considering it, and Lithuania is modernizing its reactor in Ignalin. Therefore the government's program for development of the energy sector assumes construction of one in 2021, while by 2030 there should be 3 working nuclear power plants in Poland.  Each reactor could provide 1,500 MW of energy and would be cheaper, more environment friendly and could help make Poland more independent from oil and gas imports from Russia. Each reactor is likely to cost EUR 3 billion, but would have a lifespan of 40 years, according to Maciej Jurkowski, Director of the State Atomic Energy Agency's Safety Department, which orders public opinion polls every two years to monitor support for the concept of nuclear power plants in Poland. (Rzeczpospolita, pp.A1,A2, B1) J.L.