Via Notes from Poland:
Four eastern German states – Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, Brandenburg and Saxony, which border Poland, as well as Berlin – have formally expressed opposition to the Polish government’s plans to develop the country’s first nuclear power station.
“Together, the federal states speak out against the construction and operation of the first nuclear power plant in Poland and [are] in favour of abandoning the project,” reads a statement by Brandenburg’s consumer protection ministry published earlier this week.
“In view of the devastating nuclear accidents in Chernobyl and Fukushima, plans for the further use of nuclear energy should be abandoned in the interest of the population and environment of all Baltic Sea countries,” it adds.
The statement notes that the environment ministry of Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania has forwarded their objections and concerns to Poland’s general director for environmental protection in Warsaw....
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I don't know how many 9.0-magnitude earthquake-caused tsunami's the Baltic has suffered over the years but the quake at Fukushima was so forceful it shifted the Earth off its axis.
So there is that risk, it can't be discounted 100%.
Ukraine's Chernobyl disaster was the result of the interplay between USSR reactor design flaws and the errors of the Ukrainian and Russian technicians.
For their first nuke the Poles have contracted with Westinghouse whose reactors have not (to date) had a Chernobyl disaster. Whether the Polish operators are smarter than the Ukrainian and Russian operators were at Chernobyl is something you'll have to query the Poles about, I don't know.
