Director Tomasz Nowacki leaves the Department of Nuclear Energy of the Ministry of Climate. The circumstances of his resignation are not entirely clear.
According to the WysokieNapiecie.pl portal, director Tomasz Nowacki, who was one of the key people implementing the Polish nuclear program, said goodbye to the Climate Ministry. His place will be taken by the current deputy Pavel Pytlarchik.
Nowacki began working in government during the PO-PSL coalition. Since 2019 – Director of the Department of Nuclear Energy, which was first subordinated to the Ministry of Energy, and then transferred to the Ministry of Climate. Thanks to him, the Polish Nuclear Power Program was adopted.
Director leaves
According to WysokieNapiecie.pl, the circumstances of the director’s departure are not entirely clear. According to the editors, he should now take a position at PGE, where he should open a department dealing with nuclear energy.
A big obstacle may be the departure of a key person responsible for the development of nuclear energy from the ministry. Moreover, the construction project of the first Polish nuclear power plant has gained momentum. Westinghouse, which is supposed to build it, recently showed a rendering of what the facility could look like.
“The most important thing now is human resources and, in connection with this, the departure of the director of the department. Tomasz Nowacki’s nuclear plan looks bad,” Wojciech Jakobik of BiznesAlert tweeted.
Polish nuclear power plant
On November 2, the Council of Ministers published a special resolution of November 2 on the construction of large nuclear power plants in the Republic of Poland.
As we read in the document, the nuclear power plant in Poland will be built “in order to ensure energy security, which is an element of state security, and is aimed at reducing and stabilizing electricity prices, reducing gas emissions in the energy sector, as well as creating conditions for development of a new sector of the economy – nuclear energy.
Source: Wprost
