The legal challenges of global commercialisation of SMR new nuclear technologies: from an international investment law perspective

Nriezedi-Anejionu, C

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Nriezedi-Anejionu, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8329-3408, 2025. The legal challenges of global commercialisation of SMR new nuclear technologies: from an international investment law perspective. Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law. ISSN 0975-7554

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02646811.2025.2583937

Abstract

Renewed interest in nuclear energy due to energy transition and net-zero goals is being fuelled by advances in nuclear energy technologies such as small modular reactors (SMR). With expected increased investment interests in SMR, this paper questions whether the features of SMR commercial transactions would comply with the various principles and standards of international investment law. It found that there are mixed areas of compliance and non-compliance, and certain limitations and ambiguities. These findings will be relevant to SMR manufacturers and regulatory authorities for SMR global commercialisation. The paper concludes with certain recommendations including amending the International Energy Charter.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law
Creators:	Nriezedi-Anejionu, C.
Publisher:	IOS Press
Date:	21 November 2025
ISSN:	0975-7554
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/02646811.2025.2583937 DOI 2563090 Other
Rights:	© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Law School
Record created by:	Laura Borcherds
Date Added:	27 Jan 2026 09:15
Last Modified:	27 Jan 2026 09:15
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/55130