Last week’s General Assembly of the SMR Industrial Alliance (May 29 and 30) provided an opportunity to define the roadmap for the coming months, and to appoint the chairmen of the working groups.
In Paris on Wednesday (February 21), French Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire said he would convene a meeting of the Nuclear Alliance on March 4. This will be an opportunity to discuss the implementation of nuclear projects of common interest.
Small modular reactors (SMRs) will be partly relied upon to meet the EU’s 2040 climate objectives, with an industrial alliance to be launched shortly and the first reactors deployed “by 2030”, the European Commission announced on Tuesday (6 February).
The European Parliament backed the development of small nuclear reactors (SMRs) on Tuesday (12 December), a move welcomed by EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson, who has already called for a rapid turnaround of EU initiatives on the matter.
As the European Commission prepares to launch its industry alliance for small modular reactors, Euractiv France takes a closer look at the group’s planned structure, work programme and remaining grey areas.
The EU’s Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson backed the development of an industrial alliance on small modular reactors at the 16th European Nuclear Energy Forum in Bratislava on Tuesday (7 November).
