Nuclear Alliance Calls for Technology Neutrality

As the World Nuclear Exhibition opens in Paris, the European Business Nuclear Alliance reaffirms the shared commitment of European business federations to strengthening a resilient, competitive and forward-looking nuclear value chain.

• The European Business Nuclear Alliance reaffirms the shared commitment of European business federations to strengthening a resilient, competitive and forward-looking nuclear value chain.
• Our alliance calls for a continued and collective effort to scale up and sustain a competitive European nuclear industrial base, in line with the EU climate framework and the reaffirmation of the technology neutrality principle in EU energy policy. European efforts should build on the size and integration of the European market and the complementarity between resilient industrial value chains.
• This is a strategic opportunity to foster competitiveness, innovation and resilience at the European level.
• The proposal for 2040 regulation also reaffirms that all low-carbon solutions, including nuclear energy, will be needed to meet Europe’s objectives, with technology neutrality as a guiding principle.
• But there is still an urgent need to go further and faster. Businesses throughout the value chain still face major obstacles in accessing financing and turning political signals into tangible investment conditions.
• At the general level, European businesses are still needing guarantees on the access to competitive, resilient, dispatchable and low-carbon energy, including from baseload sources such as nuclear.
• Looking ahead, the implementation of EU climate framework will be decisive. The Commission’s commitment to technology neutrality must still be fully confirmed and operationalised across upcoming legislation to ensure a coherent, investment-friendly environment that turns ambition into delivery.