The US Department of Energy (DOE) says it is talking closely with partner countries to push for commonality over nuclear regulations in an effort to accelerate and lower the costs of an anticipated expansion of nuclear capacity.

Speaking to journalists at the ‘Roadmaps To New Nuclear’ event organised alongside the OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), James Danly, deputy secretary of energy at the DOE, called for a unified regulatory approach.

“We would like to see the greatest collaboration across every country so that we don’t have to reinvent the wheel with a new regulatory regime,” Danly said at the conference in Paris attended by leading nuclear industry figures and policymakers.