Government winning nuclear power information battle?
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
27.08.2014 08:15
Despite a new poll showing that a majority support nuclear power in Poland, the economy ministry says it still needs to continue to convince Poles it's safe.
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More than half of Poles back the government's plan to build nuclear power stations, according to the latest poll by the the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) in Warsaw.
The poll follows the presentation of a draft of the country’s energy policy until 2050, which states that the main goal of the policy is a so-called balanced scenario: a domination of coal, set to decline gradually, \with the role of natural gas seen growing, and the share of renewable energy sources expected to rise.
Poland is aiming for nuclear power to provide 15 percent of energy supply in the future.
"For us it's still a challange, first, to convince people and then to keep them convinced for the next decades. We should deliver information to the society which will convince them that nuclear energy is safe and that we need it in Poland," Tomasz Nowacki, deputy director of the Nuclear Energy Department at the Ministry of Economy, told our reporter Danuta Isler.