POLAND
TABLE 1. POPULATION INFORMATION
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||
Year | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2009* | 2000 to 2009 |
Population (millions) | 32.5 | 35.6 | 38.1 | 38.5 | 38.2 | 38.1 | -0.1 |
Population density (inhabitants/km²) | 106.8 | 116.8 | 125.2 | 126.3 | 124.6 | 125.3* | |
Urban Population as % of total | 52.1 | 58.1 | 61.3 | 61.7 | 61.5 | 61,2 | |
Area (1000 km²) | 312.7 |
TABLE 2. GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP)
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||
1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2009 | 2000 to 2009 | |
GDP (millions of current US$) | 58 975.9 | 171 276.1 | 303 912.3 | 430 076.2 | 10.6 | ||
GDP (millions of constant 2000 US$) | 118 040.7 | 171 276.1 | 199 363.6 | 241 510.3 | 3.9 | ||
GDP per capita (PPP* US$/capita) | 5 460.7 | 10 513.9 | 13 784.2 | 19 058.7 | 6.8 | ||
GDP per capita (current US$/capita) | 1 547.2 | 4 454.1 | 7 963.0 | 11 273.3 | 10.7 |
TABLE 3. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Estimated available energy sources | ||||||
Fossil Fuels | Nuclear | Renewables | ||||
Solid | Liquid | Gas | Uranium | Hydro | Other Renewable |
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Total amount in specific units* | 55 | 139 | 7270 | |||
Total amount in Exajoule (EJ) |
TABLE 4. ENERGY STATISTICS
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||
1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | year* 2009 |
2000 to year* 2009 |
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Energy consumption** | |||||||
- Total | 3.53 | 5.21 | 4.23 | 3.72 | 3.90 | 3.93 | 5.65 |
- Solids*** | 2.90 | 4.02 | 3.16 | 2.35 | 2.32 | 2.16 | -8.09 |
- Liquids | 0.37 | 0.77 | 0.66 | 0.82 | 0.93 | 1.05 | 28.05 |
- Gases | 0.22 | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.42 | 0.51 | 0.51 | 21.43 |
- Nuclear | |||||||
- Hydro | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
- Other Renewables |
0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.20 | 66.67 |
Energy production | |||||||
- Total | 4.00 | 5.10 | 4.10 | 3.29 | 3.23 | 2.74 | -16.72 |
- Solids*** | 3.76 | 4.85 | 3.95 | 2.99 | 2.88 | 2.36 | -21.07 |
- Liquids | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.00 |
- Gases | 0.18 | 0.19 | 0.10 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.15 | 7.14 |
- Nuclear | |||||||
- Hydro | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
- Other Renewables |
0.03 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.19 | 58.33 |
Net import (Import – Export) | |||||||
- Total | -0.46 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 0.34 | 0.69 | 1.26 | 270.59 |
TABLE 5. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||
1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | year* 2009 |
2000 to year* 2009 |
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Capacity of electrical plants (GWe) | |||||||
- Thermal | 11.38 | 20.66 | 25.99 | 28.38 | 29.82 | 29.98 | 5.64 |
- Hydro | 0.74 | 1.30 | 1.98 | 2.18 | 2.32 | 2.34 | 7.34 |
- Nuclear | |||||||
- Wind | 0.004 | 0.12 | 0.71 | 17 650.00 | |||
- Geothermal | |||||||
- other renewable | |||||||
- Total | 12.12 | 21.96 | 27.97 | 30.56 | 32.26 | 33.03 | 8.08 |
Electricity production (TW.h) | |||||||
- Thermal | 62.64 | 118.59 | 133.00 | 141.05 | 153.02 | 147.67 | 4.69 |
- Hydro | 1.89 | 3.28 | 3.31 | 4.12 | 3.78 | 2.97 | -27.91 |
- Nuclear | |||||||
- Wind | 0.005 | 0.14 | 1.08 | 21 500,00 | |||
- Geothermal | |||||||
- other renewable | |||||||
- Total (1) | 64.53 | 121.87 | 136.31 | 145.18 | 156.94 | 151.72 | 4.50 |
Total Electricity consumption (TWh) | 59.02 | 109.44 | 124.71 | 124.58 | 131.19 | 137.00 | 9.97 |
TABLE 6. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS
1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | year* 2009 |
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Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) | 108.09 | 145.80 | 111.10 | 97.24 | 102.21 | 102.97 |
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh/capita) | 1 807 | 3 063 | 3 276 | 3 257 |
3 438 | 3 589 |
Electricity production/Energy production (%) | 5.8 | 8.6 | 11.96 | 15.89 | 17.49 | 19.93 |
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Ratio of external dependency (%) (1) | -13.03 | 2.11 | 3.31 | 9.4 | 17.69 | 32.06 |
TABLE 1 NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN POLAND IN THE EIGHTIES
REACTOR | TYPE | net CAPACITY | construction start | construction cancel |
Zarnowiec-1 | VVER-440/213 | 440 | 03/1982 | 09/1990 |
Zarnowiec-2 | VVER-440/213 | 440 | 03/1982 | 09/1990 |
Zarnowiec-3 | VVER-440/213 | 440 | preliminatory works and reactor manufacturing were started | 09/1990 |
Zarnowiec-4 | VVER-440/213 | 440 | preliminatory works and reactor manufacturing were started | 09/1990 |
Warta-1 (Klempicz) | VVER-1000/320 | 950 | 1988 (preliminatory works) | 04/1989 |
Warta-2 (Klempicz) | VVER-1000/320 | 950 | 1988 (preliminatory works) | 04/1989 |
Warta-3 (Klempicz) | VVER-1000/320 | 950 | not started | |
Warta-4 (Klempicz) | VVER-1000/320 | 950 | not started | |
Total net power (8 units) |
5560 MWe |
TABLE 7. STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Station | Types | Net Capacity |
Operator | Status | Reactor Supplier |
Criticality | Construction Date |
Grid Date |
Commercial Date |
Shutdown Date |
UCF for year 2011 |
ZARNOWIEC-1 | PWR | 440 | Cancelled Constr. | EJZ | SKODA | 1983-01-01 | 1990-09-04 | ||||
ZARNOWIEC-2 | PWR | 440 | Cancelled Constr. | EJZ | MEGADEX | 1983-01-01 | 1990-09-04 |
TABLE 8. PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Station/Project Name | Type | Capacity | Expected Construction Start Year | Expected Commercial Year |
NPP-1, unit 1 | PWR or BWR | 1000-1650 | 2016 | 2020 |
NPP-1, unit 2 | PWR or BWR | 1000-1650 | 2018 | 2022 |
(NPP-1, unit 3) | PWR or BWR | 1000-1650 | (2020) | (2024) |
NPP-2, unit 1 | PWR or BWR | 1000-1650 | 2022(2020) | 2026 (2024) |
NPP-2, unit 2 | PWR or BWR | 1000-1650 | 2024(2022) | 2028(2026) |
(NPP-2, unit 3) | PWR or BWR | 1000-1650 | (2030) | (2034) |
TABLE METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS. THESE FACTORS WERE CHARACTERIZED IN ATTACHMENT NO 8 TO THE POLISH NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAMME. METHODOLOGY OF SITE STUDIES AND THE CRITERIA FOR SITE SELECTION WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE PGE SA IN COOPERATION WITH THE NAEA/PNRC (THE SITE EXAMINATION CRITERIA WERE DETERMINED IN §5 OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS)
Region of Poland |
Identified resources of pure Uranium [ton] |
Uranium content in the ore [ppm] |
Forecasted resources [ton of pure U] |
Rajsk (Podlasie) | 5320 | 250 | 88850 |
Peribaltic syneclise | 10000 | ||
Okrzeszyn (Walbrzych basin, the Sudety mts) | 940 | 500-1100 | |
Grzmiaca in Gluszyca Dolna (the Sudety mts) | 790 | 500 | |
Wambierzyce (the Sudety mts) | 220 | 236 | 2000 |
TABLE BELOW PRESENTS THE BALANCE OF WASTE COLLECTED FOR TREATMENT BETWEEN THE YEARS 2000 AND 2008. IT SHOWS, THAT THE AMOUNT OF SOLID AND LIQUID WASTE SYSTEMATICALLY DECREASES, THANKS TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF ISOTOPE PRODUCTION AND CORRECT OPERATION OF EQUIPMENT FOR NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGIES AND ALSO DUE TO A DECREASE IN RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS.
Specification | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |||||||||
solid | liquid | solid | liquid | solid | liquid | solid | Liquid | solid | liquid | solid | liquid | solid | liquid | solid | liquid | solid | liquid | |
Sources of radioactive waste | ||||||||||||||||||
MARIA reactor (m3) | 16,55 | 265,00 | 14,60 | 110,00 | 8,00 | 95,00 | 6,00 | 30,00 | 6,00 | 98,21 | 5,030 | 21,00 | 12,92 | 152,09 | 5,50 | 84,00 | 6,76 | 29,00 |
EWA reactor (m3) | 4,65 | - | 1,20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
OR POLATOM IEA (m3) | 11,85 | 0,41 | 10,75 | 0,34 | 7,200 | 0,26 | 7,80 | 0,23 | 8,03 | 0,13 | 8,60 | 0,02 | 7,75 | 0,03 | 6,20 | 0,02 | - | 0,05 |
RWMP (m3) | 5,89 | 8,50 | 76,95 | 8,00 | 3,10 | 4,00 | 18,95 | 8,00 | 7,06 | - | 2,56 | 4,00 | 0,33 | 0,00 | 1,51 | 0 | 3,35 | 6,00 |
Companies from outside the Swierk Centre (medicine, industry, science) (m3) |
45,83 | 1,30 | 41,98 | 1,39 | 29,73 | 1,59 | 26,79 | 1,45 | 31,39 | 2,88 | 26,13 | 1,66 | 21,17 | 0,96 | 17,27 | 0,48 | 12,68 | 2,59 |
In total | 84,76 | 275,20 | 145,48 | 119,73 | 48,03 | 100,85 | 59,54 | 39,68 | 52,48 | 101,22 | 42,32 | 26,68 | 42,17 | 153,08 | 30,48 | 84,50 | 22,79 | 37,64 |
Categories of radioactive waste | ||||||||||||||||||
low level (m3) | 63,22 | 274,81 | 128,14 | 119,40 | 39,77 | 100,64 | 47,62 | 39,66 | 40,17 | 28,19 | 31,26 | 26,68 | 41,57 | 153,08 | 29,92 | 84,48 | 22,38 | 37,63 |
intermediate level (m3) | - | 0,40 | - | 0,33 | - | 0,21 | 1,88 | 0,02 | 1,35 | 73,03 | 0,65 | - | 0,60 | 0,02 | 0,60 | 0,02 | 0,40 | 0,01 |
alpha radiation (m3) | 3,74 | - | 1,66 | - | 5,07 | - | 2,16 | - | 0,79 | - | 1,90 | - | 2,46 | - | 0,45 | - | 0,08 | - |
smoke detectors (pcs) | 24 367 | 20 490 | 10 148 | 9 995 | 12 211 | 14101 | 19 394 | 16 425 | 25 053 | |||||||||
closed sources (pcs) | 898 | 875 | 1235 | 1195 | 619 | 825 | 1 397 | 1 508 | 2675 | |||||||||
Waste sent for storage at NRWR – Rózan | ||||||||||||||||||
by volume (m3) | 44,87 | 137,16 | 40,72 | 40,99 | 33,03 | 36,30 | 67,95 | 48,88 | 73,41 | |||||||||
by activity (at 31.12 in a given year) (TBq) | 1,40 | 1,57 | 2,41 | 1,24 | 0,52 | 1,87 | 1,74 | 1,37 | 1,26 |