Europe must provide clear political and regulatory predictability over the long-term as well as improved access to funding in order to drive successful nuclear deployment, according to a Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) thinktank report.

The report, titled ‘Back to the future? What it will take to deliver nuclear energy in the EU’ said that while political support for nuclear energy has strengthened considerably, deployment would mean addressing broad industrial, regulatory, financial and market barriers.

CEPS said that nuclear energy’s future role in Europe would depend not only on technological feasibility, but on how far political amibition was translated into credible framework conditions for deployment.