On Tuesday 10 March, the European Commission will present a strategy to promote EU production of small modular reactors (SMR), a new category of nuclear reactor that could boost the supply of clean, locally-produced energy and therefore contribute to the EU’s decarbonisation and industrial competitiveness objectives.
This strategy, a draft of which Agence Europe has seen, outlines a list of initiatives to encourage this production, calling, for example, for facilitating the mobilisation...