Overview
- About 40 countries and international organizations are attending at La Seine Musicale near Paris, with the United States and China represented and Russia excluded over the war in Ukraine.
- The agenda centers on a practical roadmap to 2050 that builds on the COP28 commitment, with France urging additional states to endorse the goal of tripling global nuclear capacity.
- Financing is the core hurdle, with the Élysée stressing that private investors must complement public funding from development banks to make new projects viable.
- The European Union is expected to present a strategy to speed commercialization of small modular reactors, targeting first deployments around 2030 and closer collaboration among European start-ups.
- IAEA and IEA leaders frame the push as a response to energy security and decarbonization needs, as Middle East tensions and Fukushima and Chernobyl anniversaries renew focus on sovereign, low‑carbon power.