Senior Research Fellow Denise Cheong and Research Fellow S Nivedita participated in the meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Nuclear Energy Experts Group held this year. This meeting was held virtually from 28 to 29 September 2021. Denise Cheong was invited to present as part of a panel session on the future of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in Asia where she provided the ASEAN context, touching on SMR development and potential deployment within Southeast Asia as well as efforts to foster international and regional cooperation in this area.