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Southeast Asia Will Need $208 Billion By 2050 For Nuclear Ambitions, Analysis Shows

By David Dalton
16 September 2025

Small modular reactors will emerge as referred technology, says Wood Mackenzie

Southeast Asia Will Need $208 Billion By 2050 For Nuclear Ambitions, Analysis Shows
The Philippines built a nuclear plant at Bataan which was completed in 1984, but never fuelled and commissioned. Courtesy Wikipedia/Creative Commons Licence.
Southeast Asia’s nuclear ambitions will require $208bn (€176bn) of investments to develop 25 GW of capacity by 2050, with small modular reactors (SMRs) emerging as the preferred technology despite significantly higher costs, according to new analysis.

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