2010 ESARDA Reflection Group Report

The latest ESARDA Reflection Group exercise was launched in 2010. During the 2000-2010 decade,important developments in the field of global security have impacted upon international safeguards, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear security and nuclear disarmament verification. At the same time, the concept of a nuclear “renaissance” took root with an expansion in ambitions for the civil use of nuclear energy and nuclear fuel cycles, both within the EU and worldwide,including new actors and a wider diffusion of nuclear materials and technologies.