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: The National Centre for Nuclear Research; The Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences; and The Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion. Polish institutions had applied for financing for 25 projects, but only obtained funds for five. In one of them, Polish scientists will research 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.