Programmes and agreements / prg-hr-nuclear-working-group-smr-siting

Croatia's Working Group for Nuclear Energy: siting studies and SMR-versus-large comparison

In February 2025 Croatia's Ministry of the Economy set up a Working Group for Nuclear Energy to prepare studies on potential locations, compare the financial and economic aspects of SMRs with large plants, and draft a legislative framework including an independent regulator. No site or technology decision is recorded.

Not a deployment project. SMR plans, agreements, studies and government programmes that are not (yet) a single deployment project. They are listed separately and are never counted as projects or reactors.

Type

Government programme

Countries concerned

Croatia

Participants and roles

• Government: Ministry of the Economy of Croatia

Designs named

—

Scale as stated

no capacity or unit target

Announced or first reported

Feb 2025

Status

Active
Working group preparing location studies and comparing SMRs with large plants, no site or decision.

Confidence

low

Last checked

2026-10-14 (record review date, not proof of current activity)

Related deployment projects

• No related deployment project is recorded here.

Sources

• Croatia to study potential locations for new nuclear capacity (reputable_press, published 17 Feb 2025, accessed 2026-10-14)