The subsidiary company - ORLEN Synthos Green Energy, has today submitted an application to the President of the PAA. General opinion is aimed at determining whether the planned organisational and technical solutions comply with the requirements of nuclear safety and radiological protection under the provisions of the law.
The technical documentation that OSGE submitted to the PAA is based on documentation prepared by the technology supplier – GE Hitachi - for the Canadian regulator CNSC under a process known as VDR (Vendor Design Review), a pre-license technology review. The licensing process is being conducted in Canada due to the fact that the world's first BWRX-300 reactor is currently being built there - on the site of the existing Darlington nuclear power plant. The investor - Ontario Power Generation - is an experienced nuclear power plant operator –. Recently, SaskPower,another Canadian utility,has also announced that the company has selected BWRX-300.
The PAA will analyse whether the submitted documentation complies with the requirements of nuclear safety and radiological protection under Polish law. The PAA President's general opinion is issued on the basis of Article 39b of the Atomic Law and may concern any aspect of a nuclear facility related to nuclear safety and radiological protection of a nuclear facility. The PAA president will issue a general opinion within six months. In particular cases this may be extended by another three months.
ORLEN Synthos Green Energy (OSGE), a special purpose vehicle of Synthos Green Energy and multienergetic giant PKN ORLEN.
Photo: GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
Companies, including Synthos Green Energy, are part of a team led by GE-Hitachi which has been awarded a £33.6 million UK Future Nuclear Enabling Fund (FNEF) grant to support development of the BWRX-300 technology.
At the the press conference at PKN ORLEN’s headquarters, the first potential sites for the BWRX-300 reactors were presented. These are Ostrołęka, Włocławek, Stawy Monowskie, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Kraków-Nowa Huta, the Tarnobrzeg – Stalowa Wola Special Economic Zone and Warsaw.
Synthos Green Energy has signed an agreement for the design of a BWRX-300 SMR from GE Hitachi. The company, together with its partners from the U.S. and Canada, will invest in the development of the GEH BWRX-300 technology.
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