The unsolved problem in European SMR finance

Applications to subsidise fleets of fourteen reactors sit with regulators in Poland and the UK, while Sweden has agreed to move a project company into majority state ownership. But the problem being grappled with here is larger than any single market. How risk is allocated between private and public players is the key question that must be answered as first-of-a-kind SMR fleets transition into a major segment of the European energy picture for decades to come.