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MINSK, 1 March (BelTA) – In an interview with a BelTA correspondent Polish politician, political scientist, and publicist Mateusz Piskorski shared his opinion on why Poland has changed its rhetoric on nuclear energy.
Poland, even before building its first nuclear power plant, is already considering building a second. However, the Polish side previously opposed the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus.
“This suggests that the Polish leadership is guided by purely political considerations, according to which there is ‘bad’ electricity, generated by its eastern neighbors, and ‘good’ electricity, produced with the assistance and support of American partners. Here, the decisive role is played not by the economic, but by the political choice of the Polish leadership,” said Mateusz Piskorski.
He recalled that Poland had been planning to build a nuclear power plant in the 1980s. “This process was accelerated after preliminary contracts were signed with American companies. Regarding electricity imports from Belarus and Russia (incidentally, there was a plan to jointly build a nuclear power plant in Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast), this never came to fruition due to certain political factors. This is a purely geopolitical choice – the choice of the United States as a geopolitical partner. True, we don’t yet know who will be building the second nuclear power plant in Poland. Perhaps technology suppliers from the Republic of Korea and France will also be considered as part of a state tender. But I believe that this segment of Polish industry, and Polish development policy in general, is already completely subordinate to its American partners. In reality, this was a purely political deal,” the Polish political scientist noted.
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