With respect to studies and planning done now by Polish public institutions related to the development of  nuclear power plants in the country, HMJ company has prepared a proposal of the  Technical Standard for underground siting of the  Gen IV  nuclear reactors.

This proposal, in form of  a draft of  the Polish/European Technical Standard  was already presented to the CEN/CENELEC  organization , Polish Standards Committee (PKN), as well as to IAEA, to major European manufacturers of the equipment for the nuclear power plants and submitted for presentation on the IAEA symposium.

The draft of the Standard takes an engineering-sense approach to the  ecology issues, prioritising a long-term protection of the surface resources and  population.