Meeting of the Nuclear Alliance in the margin of the EU Energy Council

The Nuclear Alliance considers the European Commission’s Action Plan as a significant opportunity for the Commission to ensure that all European industries and citizens, in all Member States, have access to affordable and predictable energy prices and to address the challenges Europe faces in this regard, as outlined in Mario Draghi’s report on the future of European competitiveness.

Ministers and high-level representatives sent the following joint messages to the European Commission:

• It is crucial and urgent that the EU gets an energy policy with technology neutrality to be fully respected as the overarching guiding principle and look forward to work with the Commission to provide the same conditions for the development of nuclear power as for renewable energy, to contribute to climate neutrality and increased competitiveness.
• The Mission Letter cannot be interpreted as a sole focus on SMRs. The efforts on nuclear power from the Commission must encompass all nuclear technologies, like large scale nuclear new build and lifetime extensions, and the whole nuclear value chain and fuel cycle.
• Without sufficient low carbon baseload there is no path for the EU to provide to its citizens affordable, reliable and abundant low carbon energy by containing increasing system costs while achieving Net Zero by 2050.
• The ambitions and plans from the Member States on nuclear power must be fully recognised and reflected in upcoming initiatives, for example in the update of the Nuclear Illustrative Program (PINC).

Ministers and high-level representatives also took note of the progress made by the Nuclear Alliance Working Group on Financing by discussing its working report and next steps.

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* Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden; Poland as observer, due to the EU Presidency; Estonia, Italy, as observers.

Source – Government of Sweden