Poland may come to see its first-ever nuclear power plant thanks to a deal the US’ Westinghouse-Bechtel consortium, which have signed an engineering development agreement with Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ) for a project featuring three AP-1000 reactors, and which could scale toward double that scale with a total investment of $51 billion. For now, the contract only means that design work will continue, following on from the original 2022 selection of the Westinghouse AP1000 technology for the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site, and an 18-month Engineering Services Contract signed in 2023. The EPC Contract could be agreed by the end of this year. There’s much to be said here about the future of nuclear power – including US-built nuclear, since Westinghouse has not had…