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Netherlands / Large Reactors And SMRs Can Play Significant Role In Energy System, Says Ministry Report

By David Dalton
29 September 2022

‘Optimal’ solution would be to build 9 GW of new nuclear capacity by 2050
Large Reactors And SMRs Can Play Significant Role In Energy System, Says Ministry Report
The single-unit Borssele is the only commercial nuclear power plant in operation in the Netherlands. Courtesy EPZ.
If large-scale nuclear energy can be realised without exceeding budgets and construction periods and if small modular reactors (SMRs) achieve their cost ambitions, nuclear energy can play “a significant role” in the Dutch energy system, a study produced for the ministry of economic affairs and climate policy has shown.

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