The plant, using Westinghouse AP1000 reactors, would be Poland’s first NPP.

Poland's energy policy until 2040 considers the development of a nuclear power plant (1-1.6 GW) that could start commercial operations in 2033.

Poland's national plans for nuclear focus on the construction of large reactors, with the first to be on the country's Baltic coast.

The Polish Energy Policy to 2040 assumes that in 2033 the first nuclear unit with a capacity of between 1000MWe and 1600MWe will begin operation. The next units will be implemented every two or three years.

President Duda said that, especially at the current time with "the Russian aggression on Ukraine", the diversification of energy supplies, including the import of American Liquefied Natural Gas, was of “extreme importance".

Bechtel and Westinghouse are preparing a front-end engineering design (FEED) for a plant on a site chosen by Poland on the Baltic Sea coast, for the Polish Nuclear Power Plant programme. The FEED is partially funded by a grant from the US Trade and Development Agency.

The new agreement follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in September 2021 by NuScale Power, KGHM and business engineering advisory consultancy PBE to jointly explore the deployment of NuScale's SMR technology as a repowering or repurposing solution for existing coal-fired power plants and electricity and heat for KGHM's industrial processes in Poland.

The MoUs - signed in both Gdańsk and Westinghouse's office in Warsaw - include cooperation on the possible construction of six AP1000 plants for the Polish nuclear power plant programme.

SGE, together with its partners, plans to deploy at least 10 BWRX-300 SMRs in Poland by the early 2030s.

Constructing nuclear power plants in Poland was "a good way of fighting climate change" agreed 78% of people, with only 17% in disagreement.