Canada’s nuclear regulator has renewed calls for greater regulatory harmonisation across borders in a bid to reduce duplication as the world gears up for the deployment of new generation reactor technology.

Rumina Velshi, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), told the Canadian Nuclear Association’s 2023 conference that these efforts have been showing returns in the form of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s nuclear harmonisation and standardisation initiative, launched in 2022.

The initiative is aimed at leveraging the leadership and expertise of governments, regulators, designers, operators, and many others to advance standardisation and harmonisation and the CNSC “is helping to lead the way on this”, Velshi said.