Regional groupings of countries should explore long-term collaboration in areas of nuclear energy such as fuel fabrication or waste management in an effort to share costs, distribute risks and reassure their neighbours and the broader international community that the deployment of reactors can contribute to energy security and economic development, according to a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace paper.

The US-based thinktank’s paper, Beyond the Gigawatts: A Broader Agenda for Nuclear Energy Deployment, says countries could codevelop and perform joint regulatory reviews to facilitate the deployment and export of advanced nuclear systems, technologies and components in their regions.