Congratulations must go to Poland — and to US vice president, Kamala Harris, and US energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm for brokering the deal — for its commitment to purchase a triad of American nuclear lemons. With breathtaking myopia, the Polish government has signed a deal to partner with the US company, Westinghouse, in the construction of three nuclear reactors in Poland.
Poland deliberated over the nuclear energy for decades. At first there was plan for construction of Soviet tech in Żarnowiec, but it failed mainly due to people’s concern.
Recently, amids the energy crisis (it’s not just this year in Poland, it was looming for at least few years), Poland decided to buy the tech from the French - this time any concerns were as usual in capitalism completely ignored - but as you said, we are a puppet of US and one word of our suzerain was enough to yet again (after some weapons contracts) choose what was most probably the worst option.
Now, people here are mostly fearing the atom because standard fears, but there are also not entirely unfounded fears, given how bad record of corruption and inefficiency capitalist Poland have with big projects, but the idea is not entirely bad - we do need energy and Poland actually do have cadre of experienced nuclear scientists operating the experimental reactor MARIA (second one EWA was closed in 1995). Unfortunately as you can see there is a reason to be afraid since even at step one political bootlicking took precedence over everything else.