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NEA Report / Agency Calls For Governments To Support Rapid Nuclear Cost Reductions With ‘New Policies And Quick Decisions’

By David Dalton
2 July 2020

Use of commercial power reactors in many OECD countries is ‘at critical juncture’
Agency Calls For Governments To Support Rapid Nuclear Cost Reductions With ‘New Policies And Quick Decisions’
File photo of construction last month at the Hinkley Point C nuclear site in England. Courtesy EDF Energy.
Governments could support a rapid reduction in the cost of new nuclear capacity by creating policies that use hard‑won industrial capabilities developed by the nuclear industry in recent years and by making quick decisions about new-build, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) concluded in a new report.

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