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The UK has signed an international agreement to start research work on the next generation of nuclear reactors. The 'Framework Agreement on International Collaboration in Research and Development on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems' was signed by the UK, Canada, France, Japan, and United States at a ceremony held at the French Embassy in Washington. The new Agreement will facilitate the start of an international collaborative effort to research innovative advanced nuclear reactor systems that will offer a carbon free international energy option for the future. The UK's participation is in line with Government policy on keeping the nuclear option open over the longer term, as set out in the Energy White Paper, February 2003. It will support UK skills needed to keep open the option over the longer term and ensure our capability to keep abreast of international developments and inform UK policy development. The initiative aims to develop the most promising advanced nuclear energy systems for deployment from around 2030 to help meet growing international demands for carbon free energy. Six systems have been selected by GIF with the help of leading international experts because of their significant potential to advance the sustainability, safety, economics and proliferation resistance of future nuclear systems. The concepts include a sodium liquid metal-cooled fast reactor, very high temperature reactor, supercritical water-cooled reactor, lead-alloy-cooled reactor, gas cooled fast reactor, and molten salt reactor. |
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