On Friday 26 April, the European Commission announced that it had approved a French State aid measure worth €300 million to support Nuward, a subsidiary of Électricité de France (EDF), in researching and developing small modular nuclear reactors with a power output equivalent to or less than 300 MWe.
The Commission has indicated that the aid, in the form of a direct grant, will support the front-end design and the third phase of the overall Nuward project, which comprises five...