In November 2024, the ENSREG plenary meeting took the decision to establish a Task Force on SMRs (TF). The goals of this SMR TF are to collect lessons and good practices with early reviews and pre-assessment of specific SMR-designs and technologies by EU regulators, to interact with the European Industrial Alliance on SMRs and to identify regulatory challenges to be further addressed
The Task Force has created a ‘Dashboard’ that gives an overview of the status of the involvement of regulatory authorities with individual SMR Projects. The ENSREG SMR Task Force has prepared this initial version of the dashboard focusing exclusively on the 1st batch of Project Working Groups (PWGs) identified in October 2024 under the European Industrial Alliance on SMRs (1). The Task Force will be updating the dashboard regularly, at least ahead of each meeting of the ENSREG Plenary, to capture the changes and progress over time.
Each EU Member State has their own approach to licensing, and the phases preceding licensing (pre-licensing), which may be formal or informal. Exact descriptions of licensing procedures in each country should be consulted in the respective regulators’ publications. The dashboard gives an overview of the current phase of regulatory engagement for specific SMR-designs in various EU countries, based on information provided by the regulators represented in the SMR Task Force.
European SMRs Industrial Alliance - First batch of Project Working Groups
