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ILF Consulting Engineers Polska, one of the leading engineering and consulting companies in Poland, has signed Memoranda of Understanding with the American company Bechtel for the potential development of two new civil nuclear power plants in Poland. The MOUs were signed on the 25th of April during ceremony at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Warsaw.

Bechtel and Westinghouse Electric Company are jointly preparing a front-end engineering design for the government’s consideration for a three-reactor plant on the Baltic Sea coast. The plant, using Westinghouse AP1000 reactors, would be Poland’s first civil nuclear power plant.

Our firm specializing in engineering consultancy and having a multidisciplinary team, will provide solid support in preparatory woks for the investment – said Rafał Blankiewicz, Managing Director of ILF Consulting Engineers Polska.

The event was attended by representatives from 12 companies – one of the largest and leading in Poland in the field of heavy construction and engineering – with whom Bechtel intends to cooperate in the development of the nuclear energy sector in Poland.

This signals another important step forward in a project that will bring our countries even closer together over a 100-year partnership. The U.S. Embassy in Poland is pleased to support Bechtel and Westinghouse as they select local Polish suppliers for this strategic project – said Mark Brzezinski, U.S. Ambassador to Poland.

Bechtel and Westinghouse bring hands-on expertise to nuclear construction. Bechtel has built or serviced more than 80 reactors in the U.S. and 150 worldwide in all major designs. Bechtel is currently completing construction of the only nuclear power plant expansion underway in the United States, at Plant Vogtle in the state of Georgia. That two-unit expansion also employs Westinghouse AP1000 reactors.