President visits Nuclear Research Centre

In the midst of a three-day trip to Switzerland, Polish President Andrzej Duda visited the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Tuesday. He indicated that Poland was actively involved in collaborating with the scientific research performed at the centre. Andrzej Siemko, a physicist from Poland, said in the report that 66 Polish scientists are employed at CERN, out of a total of 2,400 people working there. According to experts in the energy sector, Poland plans to use nuclear energy as part of its future energy plans, although leading utility companies such as Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) have indicated construction of energy-producing nuclear reactors in Poland will not occur until at least 2030. The country has one nuclear reactor, in Świerk-Otwock, but it is used only for research purposes, such as the production of radioisotopes.