France's Le Maire: EDF, Vattenfall should cooperate on SMR nuclear reactors

PARIS - French power group EDF and Sweden's Vattenfall need to accelerate cooperation to be at the forefront of the development of new small modular nuclear reactors (SMR), French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday.

Le Maire made the comments at a French-Swedish business Summit on the decarboniastion of the economy.