The government of Peru has formed a working group to prepare a roadmap that will include recommendations about the potential deployment of nuclear power – including small modular reactors (SMRs) – in the country.

The South American nation’s Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) said the group will identify and propose actions and measures and evaluate how nuclear energy could help achieve climate neutrality within timeframes set out by the Paris Agreement, which entered into force in 2021.

The agreement’s overarching goal is to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and pursue efforts “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels”.