White Paper
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1.1 The role of the Dutch State in the business case for nuclear energy
Recommendations and background information
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Summary
- Substantiation Annex
- Offer guarantees against political fluctuations.
- Create new forms of government funding mechanisms to ensure low-interest loans for new nuclear builds.
- Perform a macroeconomic cost-benefit analysis of nuclear energy.
- Work together with energy companies and vendors to achieve a more balanced cost-structure.
- Identify national and international opportunities for cooperation, leading to serial production in reactor technology.
- Enable provinces and RES regions to jointly develop nuclear power plants to achieve their RES objectives.
- Encourage energy companies to replace their fossil and/or biomass plants with nuclear power plants.
- The government encourages research into the use of nuclear energy for non-electrical processes.
- Leverage compatibility of the Dutch licensing framework with efficient commissioning of innovative reactor systems.
- Raise the level about nuclear knowledge in the government.
- Bring peace of mind to radiation-protection policy.
- Bring peace of mind to society – proactively take up the discussion about waste storage.
- Ensure that nuclear energy is considered sustainable in the EU Taxonomy.