Planning to open its first nuclear power plant in 2022, Poland on Friday signed an agreement with South Korea on bilateral co-operation on atomic energy, a Polish government statement said.
Co-operation between the two countries "will allow the Polish side to benefit from Korea's experience in the area of operating nuclear power stations and treating nuclear waste, as well as staff training and public relations," the statement said.
EU member Poland has already signed similar agreements with the United States, Japan and France.
On Thursday, Poland's nuclear energy chief Hanna Trojanowska said the country's first nuclear power station is expected to come on line in 2022, two years later than planned.
According to plans presented last year and confirmed in March, the launching of the first nuclear plant was scheduled for 2020 with a second one around 2025.
Poland, which currently relies on coal-fired plants for 94 percent of its electricity, has committed itself to easing its dependence on the fossil fuel as part of the EU's climate package limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
The government has said it wants nuclear power to generate 9.3 percent of the country's electricity by 2030, while coal's share should drop to 60 percent.
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