The report described two other scenarios through which Singapore could reach net-zero emissions by the year 2050, taking into account uncertainties in geopolitics and the development of clean energy technologies.
Professor Philip Andrews-Speed, a senior principal fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, said significant developments in nuclear technology have made it safer and more reliable.
This includes making reactors smaller, which can help to reduce costs and reduce the impact if an accident happens.
The deaths from the production of nuclear energy are comparable to modern renewables such as solar, wind and hydropower, and remain much lower than fossil fuels, according to studies.
According to our World in Data, death estimates from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, direct and indirect deaths from the 2011 Fukushima disaster and estimated occupational deaths, nuclear energy has a death rate of 0.07 deaths per terawatt-hour.
The deaths of coal and brown coal are about 33 and 25 per terawatt-hour respectively.
Even a minor accident could have a devastating impact, according to Dr Andrews-Speed, given Singapore's small size.
That is alright in a place with lots of empty space. Singapore is very cautious, and they will wait to see what happens, he said.
Singapore will want to see how other countries deploy these different technologies, what the costs are, the management, regulation, safety, waste, and waste, he said.
It's possible in 20 years time that convincing results from different technologies are not suitable for Singapore, even though they may be available for a lot of other places, and it's possible in 20 years' time. In Parliament last month, Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan said that new designs such as small modular reactors and Generation IV nuclear technologies have the potential to be much safer than many plants in operation today.
This includes the ability to cool safely and passively without the need for external systems or operator actions during emergencies.
He said that nuclear fusion technology, which is being developed globally, has the potential to be much safer, as it does not cause chain reactions and long-lived radioactive waste.
Singapore is considering geothermal energy as a low-carbon alternative to nuclear energy.
In the last year EMA announced that exploratory studies will be carried out in the northern and eastern parts of Singapore to determine the country's potential for harnessing geothermal energy.
One of the study sites is Sembawang Hot Spring Park, where researchers from the Nanyang Technological University NTU research platform TUM CREATE and Surbana Jurong are looking to obtain temperature data and improve estimations of Singapore's geothermal resource potential.