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
39 episodes
Can nuclear fuel cycle meet future rising demand?
In the first of a two-part special report from the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2025 conference held this month in Canada, Claire Maden reports on the opportunities and challenges facing players across the entire fuel sector....
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Episode 39
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17:46
Bruce Power's James Scongack on nuclear's life-saving medical isotopes
Bruce Power's Chief Operating Officer James Scongack is Chairman of the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council and, as he explains, the country aims to play a leadership role in nuclear medicine, not just for Canada's benefit, but also to prov...
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Episode 38
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34:04
India's plans for rapid nuclear energy expansion
There have been a raft of announcements from India in February relating to new nuclear energy capacity. Retired diplomat, author and distinguished fellow of the Vivekananda International Foundation, Ambassador D. P. Srivastava, is the co...
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Episode 37
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32:46
The international forum helping make advanced reactors a reality
An agreement has been concluded to renew the Generation IV International Forum, which aims to build on its first 25 years of sharing research and development on innovative nuclear reactor designs. In this episode, William D Magwood ...
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Episode 36
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29:36
What were the big nuclear energy stories of 2024? What to watch out for in 2025...
The World Nuclear News team looks back over the most read articles in 2024 - with topics including tech giants turning to nuclear energy for data centres, nuclear battery innovations, the uranium market and progress on current and prop...
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Episode 35
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38:50
What happened with nuclear energy at COP29?
The COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, was the latest global gathering aiming to agree measures to tackle climate change. Jonathan Cobb, senior programme lead, climate, at World Nuclear Association, was there. In this episode ...
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Episode 34
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34:36
What next for the UK's record-breaking Heysham 2 nuclear power plant?
Martin Cheetham is the station director of the EDF-run Heysham 2 nuclear power plant on the Lancashire coast in northwest England. It has two advanced gas-cooled reactors which were first connected to the grid in 1988. They have a combin...
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Episode 33
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22:23
Why are Microsoft, Google and Amazon choosing nuclear energy?
Global tech giants Microsoft, Google and Amazon have all announced deals which will see them using nuclear energy in the coming years. In this edition we outline what has been announced, why, and also consider the significance for new nuclear e...
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Episode 32
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22:43
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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