John Gorman: Going nuclear

Canadian Nuclear Association President John Gorman is the former solar industry executive who moved to nuclear on a mission to build bridges so the technologies can create a clean energy system together. He started working in clean energy “about 20 years ago,” John explains, “when I began to get increasingly concerned about climate change.” Having…

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Connecting the dots with Gilles Babinet

Gilles Babinet is a man who worked his way up – all the way up – to become France’s ‘Digital Champion’ at the European Commission, having left school at the age of 15. As a serial entrepreneur, the full list of roles he holds would be “complicated” but in his own words he is “very obsessed” with…

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Why the UK needs both new nuclear power plants and new technology

The vast majority of people that are working on how we will achieve NetZero by 2050 agree that the answer is to use a combination of all available solutions. This means building as much wind, nuclear and solar energy as possible while developing solutions in energy efficiency, energy storage and carbon capture. When it comes…

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Aspiration To Influence

If you use social media you must by now have noticed Isabelle Boemeke. She is the model who discovered the importance of nuclear energy and decided to become an influencer to spread the word. Her efforts have snowballed, but how does her formula actually work and what can communicators learn from her example, asks Jeremy…

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Zion Lights: Standing up for nuclear

“We live in a society with low level of science knowledge,” is one of the first things Zion Lights says in our conversation. Yet at the same time, people have become convinced of the environmental crisis and, “People want solutions,” she says, and the project to build two new EPRs at Sizewell C is the…

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Tom Samson: building on the shoulders of giants

After the oil shocks of the 1970s one Scottish university created a course to prepare engineers to work with all kinds of energy technology. After a 25-year international tour of mainly fossil fuels, one of its graduates returned to the UK to maintain nuclear in its mix. Now, as Interim CEO of the SMR Consortium…

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Building Cumbria’s Workforce and Future Community

We all rate job security as a priority, but for Sellafield and the county of Cumbria an important issue is workforce security. Programme and Project Partners (PPP) has the objective to deliver major decommissioning projects over the next 20 years at Sellafield – a timespan equal to half of a person’s career. That means the…

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