On 21 October 2019, Miguel Arias Cañete, Member of the EC in charge of Climate Action and Energy, participated in the EU-US high-level forum on small modular reactors, in Brussels.

Hosted by the EC and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the EU-U.S. high-level forum on small modular reactors (SMR) that have the potential for deployment worldwide in those countries that choose to use nuclear energy. The high-level forum looked into this issue by bringing together business stakeholders and government authorities.

This video shows the opening speeches by Miguel Arias Cañete, Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Director-General of DG Energy of the EC, Gordon Sondland, Head of the Mission of the United States to the EU, and Rick Perry, US Secretary of State for Energy, and the keynote addresses by Adina-Ioana Vălean, Chair of the EP Delegation to the COP 23, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, Romanian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), and William D. Magwood, Director General of the of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA).