Just in the past couple of days, the Polish government reasserted its plans to have 9-10 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity by 2040, with the new option of not only building big nuclear power plants, but also considering having some of the capacity come from small modular reactors, about which the Poles are in discussion with several potential producers.
This is evoking vitriolic absurdities from the German Greens: Poland’s plans are “backward-looking,” says Sylvia Kotting-Uhl, nuclear policy spokeswoman for the Green parliamentary group. “The Polish decision is not economically wise and takes risks that are completely superfluous today.” Citing a report done by “renowned environmental and nuclear experts, including those from the University of Geneva,” Kotting-Uhl claims that if there were an accident in a Polish nuclear power plant, “in the worst case, 1.8 million Germans would be exposed to radiation that would result in an evacuation.”
