Declaration on Nuclear Energy
We, the leaders of countries operating nuclear power plants, or expanding or embarking on or exploring
the option of nuclear power, and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
gathered in Brussels for the inaugural Nuclear Energy Summit to reaffirm our strong commitment tonuclear energy as a key component of our global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions fromboth power and industrial sectors, ensure energy security, enhance energy resilience, and promote longterm sustainable development and clean energy transition. We are determined to do our utmost to fulfil
this commitment through our active and direct engagement, in particular by enhancing cooperation
with countries that opt to develop civil nuclear capacities in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
in a nationally determined manner, including for transitioning away from fossil fuels, in a just, orderlyand equitable manner, as outlined in the First Global Stocktake of the 28th United Nations Climate
Change Conference.
Climate change presents an existential threat to our planet and all humankind. The warning signs aremounting worldwide, from raging wildfires to historic floods, making the need to achieve global net-zerogreenhouse gas emissions increasingly urgent. In this regard, an increasing number of countries have set
their targets for climate neutrality, carbon neutrality, greenhouse gas neutrality, or net zero emissions. The
ambitious target of global net zero emissions necessitates a comprehensive approach to radically reduce
emissions of the world’s most emission-intensive sectors including electricity generation, transportation,and industry.
Nuclear energy is a reliable and dispatchable zero emission source of electricity generation and a firm
backbone for clean energy systems to keep them resilient and sustainable. We praise the recognition at
the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of nuclear energy as an essential component of amultifaceted and all-inclusive clean energy transition sufficient to reduce greenhouse gases in an effective,timely, and nationally determined manner. In particular, we welcome the inclusion of nuclear energy in theoutcome of the First Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement and welcome the Declaration to Triple
Nuclear Energy by 2050.
We commit to work to fully unlock the potential of nuclear energy by taking measures such as enabling
conditions to support and competitively finance the lifetime extension of existing nuclear reactors, theconstruction of new nuclear power plants and the early deployment of advanced reactors, including smallmodular reactors worldwide while maintaining the highest levels of safety and security, in accordance withrespective national regulations and circumstances. In this drive for more clean energy and innovation, we
commit to support all countries, especially emerging nuclear ones, in their capacities and efforts to add
nuclear energy to their energy mixes consistent with their different national needs, priorities, pathways,
and approaches and create a more open, fair, balanced and inclusive environment for their developmentof nuclear energy, including its non-electrical applications, and to continue effectively implementing
safeguards, consistent with Member States’ national legislation and respective international obligations.
We are committed to continuing our drive for technological innovation, further improving theoperational performance, safety and economics of nuclear power plants, enhancing theresilience and security of global nuclear energy industrial and supply chains. We reaffirm ourcommitment to ensuring safe, secure and sustainable spent nuclear fuel management,
radioactive waste management and disposal, in particular deep geological disposal,and decommissioning, including decommissioning by design. We call for an
intensified collective effort on ensuring the security of energy supply andresilience of individual, regional, and multinational clean energy resources.

We are committed to creating a fair and open global market environment for nuclear power developmentto promote exchanges and cooperation among countries. We encourage nuclear regulators toenhance cooperation to enable timely deployment of advanced reactors, including small modularreactors. We emphasize the value of coordinated cooperation in nuclear fuel supply, nuclear power
equipment manufacturing and resource security to ensure the stability of the nuclear energy industrial
and supply chains.
We reiterate the role of the IAEA as the global centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, including leading
to and promoting a strong and sustainable global framework for nuclear safety and security, and verifying
adherence to respective safeguards obligations. In this regard, we stand ready to work with the IAEA toidentify and provide the necessary resources needed for the fulfilment of these objectives, subject to theavailability of funds and any applicable domestic legal requirements.
We support enhancing efforts to facilitate mobilization of public investments, where appropriate, andprivate investments towards additional nuclear power projects. We emphasize that concrete measures insupport of nuclear energy may include, as appropriate, tools such as direct public financing, guarantees
to debt and equity providers, schemes to share revenue and pricing risks. We call for greater inclusion ofnuclear energy in the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies in the international financial
system, considering that it is one of the zero emission sources of power generation that can contribute
substantially to decarbonize our societies and enhance a sustainable economic development.
We call upon relevant international organizations and institutions to support appropriate conditions
for nuclear energy development. In particular, we invite multinational development banks, international
financial institutions and regional bodies that have the mandate to do so to consider strengthening theirsupport for financing nuclear energy projects and to support the establishment of a financial level playing
field for all zero emission sources of energy generation.
To ensure the future availability of skilled nuclear sector professionals, we need to contribute further tonuclear education and research, and we consider of the utmost importance to train and retain a large
and motivated workforce. Investment in skills, including re-skilling, through education and research is
critical for the sector through the whole value chain.
We welcome and support the IAEA in convening, in cooperation with a Member State, another Nuclear
Energy Summit in due course to maintain the momentum and continue building support for nuclear
energy to decarbonize our world.