The European Commission is establishing a new European Industrial Alliance aiming to accelerate the development, demonstration and deployment of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in Europe by the early 2030s. Following up on this week’s Communication ‘Securing our future: Europe’s 2040 climate target and path to climate neutrality by 2050 building a sustainable, just, and prosperous society‘, which underlined that all technologies will be needed to reach the EU’s climate neutrality objective by 2050, the Commission launched today a call for membership applications in the SMR Alliance. The Alliance targets a wide range of SMR stakeholders including vendors, utilities, specialised nuclear companies, financial institutions, research organisations, training centres and civil society organisations. The key objective of the Alliance is to reinforce the nuclear supply chain in Europe by leveraging its manufacturing and innovation capacity and strengthening EU cooperation.
Commission to ally with industry on Small Modular Reactors – European Commission (europa.eu)