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.
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.
Speakers:
Eric Meyer
Executive Director, Generation Atomic
Andrew Crabtree
Founder, Get Into Nuclear
Lena Andriolo
President, International Youth Nuclear Congress
Gulnara Bikkulova
Deputy General Manager, Rosatom Corporate Academy
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.
Speakers:
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
Is net zero possible without nuclear?
29 April 2020
This policy debate explored the consequences of trying to prevent irreversible climate change without nuclear.
Speakers:
Kirsty Gogan
Co-founder and Executive Director, Energy for Humanity
Alan Raymant
Chief Executive of Bradwell B, CGN UK
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.
Speakers:
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
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.
Speakers:
Alan Woods
Director Strategy and Business Development, Rolls Royce
Lenka Kollar
Director, Strategy & External Relations, NuScale
Elena Pashina
Marketing Director, Rusatom Overseas
Richard Deakin
ISCF Challenge Director, Low Cost Nuclear Challenge, UKRI