The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) has launched a revised strategy that includes new core values for the organisation and a renewed focus on support for new nuclear units starting up over the next decade.

WANO’s UNITY Towards Nuclear Excellence strategy is focussed on three areas: improving global industry performance, transforming WANO and influencing the evolution of global nuclear power.

The revised strategy, which was launched at WANO’s biennial general meeting (BGM) in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), says that although there has been great progress over more than three decades, the overall trend of industry performance improvement has been slow, and the gap between the plants has remained constant.