World Nuclear News
Bringing you the news from the worldwide nuclear energy sector, interviews with key players and easy-to-follow guides to the nuclear essentials each month. The World Nuclear News team has been reporting about nuclear power since 2007 at: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ WNN is supported by the World Nuclear Association and draws on its global network of contacts across the industry, academia and international agencies.
Episodes
31 episodes
Financiers back idea of nuclear expansion, but what are the challenges?
A group of 14 global financial institutions have expressed their support for the call to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050. Their message, during New York Climate Week, stated their recognition that global civil nuclear energy pro...
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Episode 31
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33:33
World Nuclear Performance Report, plus The Nuclear Company
Total nuclear electricity generation rose in 2023 despite a small drop in overall capacity, according to World Nuclear Performance Report 2024. In this episode, lead author Jonathan Cobb, senior programme lead, climate, at World...
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Episode 30
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38:48
The Finnish SMR designed to produce heat, not electricity
Steady Energy is developing the LDR-50 small modular reactor with the initial goal of decarbonising district heating systems. The CEO of the Finnish company, Tommi Nyman, explains why the decision to focus on heat rather than electricity...
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Episode 29
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29:22
How are the USA's historic new Vogtle 3 and 4 units doing?
Southern Nuclear's Senior Vice President for Vogtle 3 and 4, John Williams, discusses the achievement and "tremendous pride" from everyone involved in completing the first new nuclear units built in the USA for more than 30 years.
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Episode 28
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23:07
Lessons from history about energy transitions
The historian, author and academic Jean-Baptiste Fressoz explains why he thinks that the idea of energy transition is a simplistic and flawed one, noting that what has actually happened throughout history has been different energy source...
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Episode 27
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50:14
World Nuclear Fuel Cycle in Kazakhstan - a special report
A special report on the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2024 international forum, co-organised by the Nuclear Energy Institute and World Nuclear Association. The two day event included discussions from leading industry figures on all aspects ...
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Episode 26
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31:36
How nuclear 'waste' could save your life, plus Nuclear Energy Summit 2024
Professor Tim Tinsley prefers not to use the label of nuclear waste, instead referring to "legacy material". And it's not hard to see why, given the projects currently taking place to extract radionuclides from the material for use in pi...
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Episode 25
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37:21
NexGen Energy's Leigh Curyer on uranium mine's huge potential
The ambitious aim for NexGen Energy, is to be supplying 25% of the world's mined supply of uranium - and about 50% of the western world's mined supply - when its Rook 1 project in Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada starts production, says it...
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Episode 24
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37:18
Newcleo's Andrew Murdoch, plus uranium market and Hinkley C's new schedule
The UK operations managing director of Newcleo, Andrew Murdoch, joins host Alex Hunt to discuss the prospects for the company's lead-cooled fast reactor. It has Italian roots and expanding operations in France, but he says the com...
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Episode 23
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31:10
Great British Nuclear's Simon Bowen on SMR contest, and UK's 24GW plans
The UK has plans to quadruple its nuclear energy capacity to 24GW by 2050. The government released its plan to get to that figure with its Civil Nuclear: Roa...
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Episode 22
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26:39
Nuclear's landmark moments at COP28 - and Sama Bilbao y León's hopes for 2024
A special report on nuclear's role at the 28th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, better known as COP28, in Dubai. It was the first time nuclear energy has been formally specified as one of the solutions to climate change in ...
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Episode 21
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43:29
Making nuclear plants look great, plus Sweden and NuScale
Technology and function, ensuring their reliable and safe operation have long been the priorities when designing nuclear power plants. But why can't they look beautiful too? Dutch architect and designer Erick van Egeraat says that ...
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Episode 20
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34:37
Can world's nuclear supply chain meet scale of new-build plans?
With the projected growth of nuclear projects over the coming decades, how will the supply chain in different parts of the world cope? EDF's Laurent-Olivier Coudeyre is chairman of World Nuclear Association's Supply Chain and Long-Term O...
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Episode 19
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46:53
Nuclear fuel, financing, recruitment, net zero - World Nuclear Symposium 2023 special report
World Nuclear Symposium, held in London, brought together key figures from across the global industry, who took part in a variety of panel discussions on many of the current big issues in the sector. In this special edition of the podc...
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Episode 18
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42:49
World Nuclear University turns 20, plus Niger and Vogtle
It was in 2003 that World Nuclear University was founded by World Nuclear Association, the International Atomic Energy Agency, World Association of Nuclear Operators and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, with a mission to provide com...
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Episode 17
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32:48
World Nuclear Performance Report, plus Great British Nuclear launches
The annual World Nuclear Performance Report has all the statistics and numbers anyone interested in the nuclear energy sector could possibly want. It breaks down the performance of reactors across the world by type, by age and by country. The a...
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Episode 16
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35:01
Nuclear energy in Africa - with Lassina Zerbo
What is the current position with nuclear energy in the continent of Africa and what are the prospects for the future? Lassina Zerbo is the former head of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization and current chairman of the...
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Episode 15
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36:50
World Nuclear Fuel Cycle - a special report. Plus Finland's plunging electricity price
The World Nuclear Fuel Cycle international forum is co-organised by the Nuclear Energy Institute and World Nuclear Association. As the name suggests, this conference is very much focused on the commercial nuclear fuel cycle and the eco...
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Episode 14
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34:18
Nuward SMR's Renaud Crassous ... plus farewell Germany, hello Turkey
The French nuclear giant EDF and its partners have been working on their Nuward small nuclear reactor and have now spun the operation into a subsidiary company. Renaud Crassous, president of Nuward joins us to discuss its plans and...
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Episode 13
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27:40
Gender balance in nuclear, and the EU's Net Zero Industry Act
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency released a report in March which it described as the first publicly available international data on gender balance in the nuclear sector. Claire Maden reports on the report's key findings (that there's stil...
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Episode 12
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42:01
Bannerman Energy's Brandon Munro on uranium sector, nuclear's prospects and impact of war
Brandon Munro, CEO of Bannerman Energy, joins us to consider the impact on the uranium and wider nuclear sector of the Russia-Ukraine war as it continues into a second year. Munro sees a bright future for the uranium sector and a...
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Episode 11
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43:58
GE Hitachi Nuclear's Jay Wileman and the hopes for greater regulatory harmonisation
What can be done to improve the process of getting approval for new nuclear in different countries? If a reactor, for example a small modular reactor, is approved in one country, can that help to speed up the process in a different country? ...
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Episode 10
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44:29
Focus on uranium, plus India's nuclear sector - and Sama Bilbao y León's hopes for 2023
Uranium is a key part of the nuclear energy sector and there has been a growing focus on it, and the entire nuclear fuel cycle, following Russia's military action in Ukraine. Claire Maden sets out the fascinating history of uranium and <...
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Episode 9
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50:48
Ingemar Engkvist on WANO's key nuclear industry role, plus Nuclear at COP27
The World Association of Nuclear Operators generally keeps a low public profile, but its CEO Ingemar Engkvist joins us to explain why that low public profile is deliberate, and outlines how the organisation works and how its members support eac...
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Episode 8
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50:49
Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel on Westinghouse deal - and nuclear's crucial climate role
October saw the big news that a strategic partnership of Cameco Corporation and Brookfield Renewable Partners is to acquire Westinghouse Electric Company for a total enterprise value of approximately USD8 billion. Brookfield...
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Episode 7
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33:09