The EU finances Polish nuclear power research with € 2.8 billion

Three Polish scientific institutions have received € 2.8 billion from the European Commission for the development of nuclear power in the Baltic and Visegrad regions via the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) programme (funding by "Horizon 2020"). Those establishments are National Centre for Nuclear Research, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences, and Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion. Polish institutions were applying for financing of 25 projects, but obtained only 5. In one of them, Polish scientists research the materials for the development of generation IV gas-cooled reactors. In another project, Poles will research the construction of a nuclear power plant in Visaginas in Lithuania.