Europe needs more than ever to come together to achieve a common approach for the development and deployment of new energy technologies including nuclear, according to lawyers who specialise in the sector.

Ximena Vásquez-Maignan, a Paris-based counsel at White & Case, said her firm is a member of the European Industrial Alliance on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and involved in the working groups addressing nuclear financing, supply chain, and industrial end energy users.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is supporting projects aimed at promoting Europe’s energy transition and strengthening its energy autonomy, but has so far not supported nuclear new-build.