“Nuclear energy is the only rational alternative to produce cheap energy in an ecological and safe way, at a price comparable to coal” ~ Michał Sołowow. It has been announced by Poland’s climate minister, that in 2026 the government will start building first polish nuclear power plantand it will be running in 2033. Its capacity will be 1.0-1.5 gigawatts. It is quite impressive giving the information, that the most powerful nuclear power plant is currently Kashiwazaki-Kariwa which has 7.95 GW. This whole project assumes, that Poland will have 6 operational blocks by 2040. They will come online by 2043 bringing 6-9 GW in total. Poland as a country really needs this change. Over 75% of the energy production is generated by power plants powered with hard and brown coal. In the last year we were 1st in Europe in terms of the most expensive energy production. Of course not producing energy from renewable sources is damaging our environment. Burning coal reveals SO2, NO2 and some heavy metals like quicksilver to the atmosphere. I am talking not only about the quality of air we all breathe, but also about the health of the planet. In order to realize this plan polish government has to be sure of their financial situation, because the cost of the investment is expected to cost over 100 billion zloty. The problem except from the money is the attitude of people. Although they are slowly starting to realize, that nuclear power energy is a non-threat, this issue has slowed down the whole nuclear power development. First plans to build a power plant appeared in Żarnowiec. Building of the institution took place 1982-1989, although it was not finished. The government told the people, that was because of their fear of the nuclear catastrophe, but it was really a matter of money. We should not fear that progress, whatsmore we should remember how the nuclear power plants map looks like in Europe – we are surrounded by them. The last thing is the nuclear waste. We can argue whether it is good or not to storage them and where to do that. The thing is we already have them from Germany (radioactive waste repository in Różan), because they paid us to keep them inside our country.