Cooperation with the US on SMRs is gaining momentum. An important meeting was held.

As we can read on the profile of the United States Embassy in Poland on the X platform, "SMRs will be an important element of the transformation of the Polish energy sector, which will also include nuclear energy based on large reactors, additional supplies of natural gas, offshore wind farms, and commercial-scale energy storage."

"The United States proudly supports Poland's efforts to develop new energy sources"

Many of these projects will be implemented in cooperation with American companies such as Westinghouse, Bechtel, GE Vernova, Cheniere Energy, Sempra, Venture, Skyborn, and Ascend Elements, the release reads.

The partnership between Orlen Synthos Green Energy and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy will also be a driving force for regional development, bringing investments, creating specialized jobs and building long-term innovation potential and industrial growth.

The United States proudly supports Poland's efforts to develop new energy sources that are accessible, affordable, reliable, and safe, and is honored that Poland is expanding its partnerships with American companies to achieve its energy security goals.

The Polish government is shifting its focus to small nuclear power. A key task for the new energy minister.

Also on Friday, Miłosz Motyka, the new Minister of Energy – taking over from the liquidated Ministry of Industry – was given an important task by Prime Minister Donald Tusk: to accelerate work on small, modular reactors. "I hope that we will make a decisive decision this summer," said Prime Minister Donald Tusk. This marks a complete shift in the government's narrative regarding SMRs.

"Let's face this quickly and resolve the matter regarding these state-of-the-art modular nuclear reactors. I count on you (to Miłosz Motyka, editor's note) to present a precise action plan on this matter by the end of the summer," Prime Minister Donald Tusk said during Friday's address before the meeting of the reconstituted government.

The introduction of new technologies into official government documents gave the SMR industry hope that the environment for this type of investment would change. However, within the Ministry of Industry, which was working on updating the PNPP , attitudes towards SMRs were lukewarm, to say the least.

- Currently, SMR technology is still at a too early stage of development, which is why it has not been included in the update of the Polish Nuclear Energy Program - said Paweł Gajda, director of the Nuclear Energy Department, about the lack of a small nuclear power plant in the updated version of the Polish Nuclear Energy Program.

The nuclear company of Orlen and Synthos aims to build SMRs in Poland

Orlen and Synthos have invested in small nuclear power in Poland. Their nuclear company, OSGE, wants to build the first such reactor at the beginning of the next decade .

This week, OSGE signed a letter of intent with Ontario Power Generation in Canada to continue cooperation in the development of GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300 SMR technology in Poland.

The company wants to build the first small reactor in Poland early in the next decade. Canadians have already begun construction of the first SMR reactor in the Western world.

Cooperation with OSGE and exchange of experiences is intended to improve the construction process in Poland.