One-day Conference “Greece in the Global SMR Supply Chain”

Announcement

On the occasion of completing a major IENE study titled "Greece in the Global SMR Supply Chain", conducted as part of IENE’s research program on the use of nuclear energy for power generation in Southeast Europe, (NUPOSEE), the Institute is organizing a morning colloquium at the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) on October 14, 2026.

During the event, the above study will be presented by its author, and IENE Research Fellow, Mr. Giorgos Papachristos, followed by contributions by senior executives of the Greek and European nuclear sector. The second part of the event will feature a round-table discussion with the participation of representatives from Greek industry.

Until now, Greece's public conversation about nuclear energy has been conducted almost entirely at the level of policy principle: whether nuclear power can be part of the country's energy mix, what the risks are, what the costs might be, and whether public opinion would accept it. These are legitimate questions. They are not, however, the questions this report asks.

The question put forward by the IENE study, and by extension the Colloquium, is narrower, more specific and more immediately consequential: what can Greece's existing industrial base contribute to the global SMR supply chain, and what would need to happen for that contribution to materialise into contracted industrial participation? That question had not been answered systematically for Greece. This report attempts to answer this key question.

Small modular reactors are entering the Greek public conversation primarily as an energy security question. The IENE study argues that this framing, however understandable, misses the more immediate and commercially significant dimension of what the global SMR industry represents. SMRs are not only a new source of low-carbon baseload power. They are the nucleus of an entirely new industrial ecosystem, one that will generate advanced manufacturing capacity, high-skill employment, export revenue, and technological capability in the countries that position themselves early enough to participate in its construction. Greece has a realistic, near-term opportunity to become a component of the global infrastructure through which SMRs are built, not merely a potential consumer of the power they produce.

The study is the first comprehensive strategic analysis of Greece's SMR supply chain positioning. It was produced at a moment of genuine institutional convergence: on 10 March 2026, the European Commission published its SMR Strategy (COM/2026/117), establishing the most consequential EU nuclear policy framework in a generation, and Prime Minister Mitsotakis delivered his landmark nuclear statement at the 2nd Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris on the same day.

The bilateral nuclear technology cooperation declaration signed between Greece and France during President Macron's April 2026 state visit, to Greece further enhanced the prospects for cooperation in developing SMR technology at European level.