Two Memoranda of Understanding between the two Polish companies and the Japanese and American developers of small modular rectors were followed by a third agreement. It is noteworthy that the third company to embark on a new path was a large Polish operator for the sale of fuel, gas and electricity - Unimot. The company has relied on the 77-MWe MMR of the American NuScale and plans to build nuclear power plants at former coal-fired power plants.
As an electricity trader, Unimot is interested in clean, stable and affordable energy. Together with the American companies Getka and NuScale, the Poles will study the possibility of building modular reactors on the existing basis. Today, over 70% of electricity in Poland is produced by coal-fired power plants and about 50% for heating purposes. The requirements for decarbonization of industry and the economy run counter to established practice. Small modular reactors can be a way out of the deadlock, although these are not projects that have been tested in practice.
We add: yesterday it became known that two Polish companies - the chemical Synthos Green Energy and the metallurgical KGHM - signed a memorandum of understanding with the Japanese GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and the American NuScale on the construction in Poland of the first small modular reactors in the European Union (if the projects turn out to be economically viable after analysis). The Japanese offered the Poles a 300 MWe BWRX-300 reactor, and the Americans (NuScale) offered 77 MWe modules from four to twelve per facility. Unimot relies on the latter - they promise more flexible scaling.
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