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US-based companies Bechtel Corporation and Westinghouse Electric have signed a memorandum of understanding with GE Steam Power to examine the possible options for cooperation in providing equipment for Poland’s nuclear power programme, Bechtel said.

In July 2021, Bechtel and Westinghouse agreed to provide Poland’s Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ), the company charged with managing the country's first nuclear power project, with a front-end engineering and design study for the deployment of two nuclear power stations, each consisting of three nuclear reactors.

GE Steam Power is the steam turbine manufacturing wing of US-based General Electric (GE). The company said its nuclear steam turbines are installed in half of the world’s reactor fleets.

Poland wants to build from 6,000 to 9,000 MW of installed nuclear capacity based on proven, large-scale, pressurised water nuclear reactors, and is expected to choose a technology vendor by the end of 2022. Commercial operation of a first unit in a proposed set of six is planned for 2033.

In December 2021, the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site in the northern province of Pomerania near the Baltic coast was selected as the preferred location for Poland’s first commercial nuclear power station.

Date: Friday, 25 February 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/bechtel-and-westinghouse-eye-cooperation-with-ge-steam-power-on-country-s-first-nuclear-project-2-4-2022