EU Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete and US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry both agreed that nuclear energy will continue to play an important role in energy production in the future at the first EU-US high-level forum on small modular reactors (SMRs) on Monday 21 October.
"The nuclear sector will continue to play a role in the European Union and the world’s electricity mix [...] as long as it meets the highest safety standards", the Commissioner stressed.