The New Nuclear Watch Institute in partnership with the Nuclear Institute and the EIC (Energy Industries Council) is holding a series of energy policy debates in 2020.
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Past sessions
Attracting talent into the nuclear
energy industry
8 December 2020
The webinar focused on why nuclear energy offers a great career for young talented men and women. We believe that the challenge of climate change provides a strong incentive for able and ambitious people to enter our industry.
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Speakers:
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Eric Meyer
Executive Director, Generation Atomic
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Andrew Crabtree
Founder, Get Into Nuclear
Lena Andriolo
President, International Youth Nuclear Congress
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Gulnara Bikkulova
Deputy General Manager, Rosatom Corporate Academy
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Ben Reynard
Digital Engineering Lead, Atkins, part of the SNC-Lavalin Group
How can investment in nuclear help to stimulate the economy?
23 July 2020
This webinar focused on how reviving the UK nuclear energy industry can stimulate the post-Covid economic recovery. It will provide an update on Sizewell C and how to engineer a net zero town.
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Speakers:
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Julia Pyke
SZC Director of Financing, EDF Energy
Ieuan Williams
Head of Policy & Public Affairs, Nuclear Industry Association
Greg Willetts
Vice President of Technology and Consultancy, Jacobs
Ian Falconer
Structured Finance, Pinsent Masons
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Is net zero possible without nuclear?
29 April 2020
This policy debate explored the consequences of trying to prevent irreversible climate change without nuclear.
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Speakers:
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Kirsty Gogan
Co-founder and Executive Director, Energy for Humanity
Alan Raymant
Chief Executive of Bradwell B, CGN UK
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Martin Wright
Chair, Renewable Energy Association
Dr Alan Whitehead MP
Shadow Minister for Green New Deal and Energy, BEIS
Ian McCarlie
Partner, Renewables & Clean Tech Sub Sector Lead, Pinsent Masons
The system value of nuclear capacity additions in sustainable development
21 October 2020
NNWI presented the fourth in a series of Energy Policy Panel Sessions 2020 at which the latest research from NNWI which sheds new light on the comparative costs of nuclear and intermittent renewable energy were introduced.
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Speakers:
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Charles Hart
Senior Researcher, The New Nuclear Watch Institute
Polina Lion
Chief Sustainability Officer, Rosatom
Julia Pyke
SZC Director of Financing, EDF Energy
Kirsty Gogan
Co-Founder, Energy for Humanity
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Jeremy Sainsbury
Director, Natural Power
Advanced and small modular reactors
18 June 2020
Many in the nuclear industry believe that advanced and small modular reactors will play a big part in the future of nuclear energy and help to drive down the cost of new plants.
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Speakers:
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Alan Woods
Director Strategy and Business Development, Rolls Royce
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Lenka Kollar
Director, Strategy & External Relations, NuScale
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Elena Pashina
Marketing Director, Rusatom Overseas
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Richard Deakin
ISCF Challenge Director, Low Cost Nuclear Challenge, UKRI
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