Signatories to the GNEP Statement of Principles now include countries from every region of the world, as well as states at every stage of nuclear power development. One of the objectives of the GNEP Statement of Principles is to establish a framework to ensure that member nations choosing to pursue the environmental and economic benefits of nuclear power can rely on this partnership for infrastructure and technical support as well as comprehensive fuel services. This framework would represent a viable alternative to developing sensitive, costly fuel cycle technologies for those states that do not yet have them.
Past Ministerials and other meetings:
Steering Group Meeting, December 13, 2007 press release
The first GNEP Steering Group meeting was held at the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, on December 11-13, 2007. Representatives from the GNEP countries developed and adopted an action plan detailing the groundwork for future partnership cooperation; members of the steering group elected the United States to chair the group and China, France, and Japan as vice-chairs. Three international organizations served as observers to the meeting.
The steering group was established to facilitate cooperation among the GNEP partners in pursuing the expansion of clean, sustainable, nuclear energy worldwide in a safe and secure manner, while at the same time reducing the risk of nuclear proliferation. The steering group will develop and coordinate a program to promote the benefits of GNEP for its participants.
GNEP Ministerial Meeting September 16, 2007 press release
On September 16, 2007, U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman chaired the second Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Ministerial at the IAEA in Vienna, Austria. As a follow-on to the first ministerial, this meeting marked the expansion of the partnership to 16 countries as well as the unanimous adoption of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Statement of Principles.
GNEP Ministerial Meeting, May 21, 2007 press release
The first Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Ministerial Meeting was held in Washington, DC to address the prospects for international cooperation on peaceful uses of nuclear energy, especially in the framework of GNEP. Ministers and other senior officials representing the respective governmental agencies of China, France, Japan, Russia, and the United States participated. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also attended as an observer.
Representatives exchanged views on GNEP and their vision for nuclear energy cooperation. Representatives issued a Joint Statement on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership and Nuclear Energy Cooperation.
Joint Statement on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership and Nuclear Energy Cooperation
Participants reached a common recognition at this meeting of the need for a variety of approaches and technical pathways to accomplish the long-term vision of a future global civilian nuclear fuel cycle. The Joint Statement proposed cooperation in the following areas:
Work to support the expansion of nuclear power, realizing its contribution to sustainable development and assistance in meeting the world-wide growing energy demand, while encouraging a closed fuel cycle which supports minimization of waste volumes and radioactivity as well as effectively managing global nuclear resources;
Pursue the development and demonstration of the advanced technologies for recycling used nuclear fuel that meet energy and nonproliferation goals;
Incorporate the highest levels of safety, security and safeguards, while working to address proliferation concerns;
Develop, demonstrate and deploy advanced fast reactors (pdf);
Promote the development of grid-appropriate power reactors suitable for regional use;
Ensure materials and technologies utilized in the civilian fuel cycle are used only for peaceful purposes.
Press Releases:
2008
May 15, 2008
Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Members Convene in Jordan for Second Steering Group
Meeting
2006
December 19, 2006
US and Russia Develop Action Plan to Enhance Global and Bilateral Nuclear Energy Cooperation
December 8, 2006
U.S. Co-Sponsored IAEA Workshop on GNEP Concludes
September 19, 2006
U.S. Provides $80,000 for International Atomic Energy Agency Infrastructure Workshop to
Establish Nuclear Generating Capacity
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