Poland Looks to Nuclear in Bid To Keep Its Coal Plants Humming

摘要

Poland hopes a nuclear power station may allow it to continue using the European Union's biggest coal deposits to fuel the bloc's biggest Eastern economy. The country, which gets more than 80 percent of its electricity from coal, may use a pledge to build its first nuclear power plant as a bargaining chip in pivotal talks with the EU on planned climate regulations under the so-called winter package. The clean energy source would cut overall emissions and could help Poland persuade the bloc to let it use dirty coal units for longer.