The event venue: European Commission – Charlemagne Building – Room Sicco Mansholt – Brussels

Programme

08:30 – 09:00

Registration and welcome coffee

09.00 – 10.15

Introduction by Ms. Ditte Juul-Joergensen, EC DG Energy Director General

and European SMR pre-Partnership Steering Committee members:

Mr Yves Desbazeille, nucleareurope, Chair
Mr Bernard Salha, SNETP – The role of research
Mr Marco Brugmans, ENSREG – The role of EU Regulators

Chairs to present main outcomes of their Workstreams and to reply to the main comments from the consultation and questions from the floor.

10.15 – 10.30

The way forward

Mr Yves Desbazeille, nucleareurope, Chair of the European SMR pre-Partnership

10.30 – 11.00

Q&A

11.00 – 11.30

Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30

SMRs as a tool to reach Net-zero objective? – Policy makers perspectives

Topics: SMR needs at EU level (decarbonisation, energy transition and security of supply, industrialisation, innovation etc.)

Moderator: Mr Jean Bergevin, Senior Expert – Hydrogen and Energy Intensive Industries Directorate I – DG GROW

EU Member States representatives:

Mr Nicolas Clausset, Deputy Director Direction générale de l’énergie et du climat (DGEC), Ministère de la Transition Energétique, France
Mr Tomáš Ehler, Director General, Energy and Nuclear Energy Sources Section, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic

European Parliament views on SMRs:

Mr Cristian Bușoi, MEP, ITRE Committee chair (EPP, RO) – video message

Ms Tsvetelina Penkova, MEP (S&D, BG)

Q/A

12.30– 13.30

Lunch

13.30– 14.30

SMRs and cross sectorial innovations

Topics: innovation sectors to benefit from SMR development

Moderator: Ms Rosalinde van der Vlies, Director Directorate C – DG RTD

Supply chain needs: Mr Massimiliano Tacconelli, Walter Tosto
Digital transition: Mr Par Lansaker, Vattenfall
SMRs for district heating: Mr Ville Valtavirta, VTT
Cross sectorial innovation: Mr Bernard Salha, SNETP

Q&A

14.30 – 15.45

Societal impact of SMR development and deployment

Topics: Social impact of SMR development in the EU (education and training, jobs, public acceptance, etc.)

Moderator: Ms Alena Mastantuono, Vice-President Section for Transport, Energy,
Infrastructure and the Information Society – EESC

Public acceptance

Ms Patricia Lorenz,Friends of the Earth Europe
Ms Myrto Tripathi, The Voice of nuclear
Ms Meritxell Martell, Group of European Municipalities with Nuclear Facilities (GMF)

Q/A

Competence Building

Ms Michèle Coeck, SCK-CEN – Belgium
Mr Jean-Philippe Sandrock – GIFEN, France

Q/A

15.45 – 16.15

Coffee Break

16.15– 17.15

Wrap-up and conclusions

Industry Energy Intensive users representative: Mr Nicola Rega, Executive Director Climate Change and Energy, CEFIC
National civil nuclear programme – Italy: Prof. Marco Ricotti, Politecnico di Milano
Regulator’s perspective: Mr Marco Brugmans, ENSREG Vice-Chair
European Commission: Mr. Jan Panek, Director Directorate D, DG ENER

17.15– 17.30

Closing remarks

Mr Yves Desbazeille, nucleareurope, Chair of the European SMR pre-Partnership

European SMR pre-Partnership Stakeholders’ Forum