Posts Tagged ‘nuclear’
Are you committed to Diversity & Inclusion in the UK Nuclear Industry?
If so, would you take 3 hours of your time to attend a workshop organised by the industry led and non-profit initiative called ‘’Diversity & Inclusion in UK Nuclear’’? We asked ourselves what we could do to make a difference in 2020, and what people in the industry want. One of the answers was…
Read MoreSama Bilbao y León: a woman who fixes things
“If I didn’t think that nuclear energy was important for the future of humanity I would have quit already and decided to do something else,” declares Sama Bilbao y León, head of the division of nuclear technology development and economics at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. “My contention is that economics is the biggest problem…
Read MoreFinding your way to leadership
The nuclear industry needs leadership for continued successful operation and to steer through today’s economic, technical and political challenges. But while the issues themselves are being well studied and documented, the nature of leadership itself is often quite unclear. Jeremy Gordon asks a range of nuclear leaders what we really mean when we talk about…
Read MoreA small organisation on a very big mission…
By Callum Thomas, Founder and CEO of Thomas Thor Associates and Chairman of KeySource Global For more than 60 years the UK has been a pioneer in nuclear power and was one of the first countries to use it to provide electricity to heat and light our homes and power our industry. It is part of…
Read More5 take-aways from the Diversity & Inclusion in UK Nuclear event
Firstly, thank you to everyone involved in making the event in Manchester on 18th July possible. The event was funded by our sponsors – Sellafield Ltd, UKAEA, NNL and EDF HPC, and was a success due to the active contribution of the diverse range of attendees, speakers and workshop leaders. The spaces at the event…
Read MoreA sea change in the conversation on nuclear energy
By Jeremy Gordon Stand-out content and conversations on nuclear energy that will influence debate for the next few years are set to feature at the upcoming Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in Vancouver from 27-29 May. In about ten days’ time, energy ministers from 27 countries and the European Union, which between them account for 90%…
Read MoreENS Career in Nuclear webinar with Thomas Thor and AIN – Italian Nuclear Young Generation
Our CEO Callum Thomas was giving a seminar about careers in the Nuclear Industry in a webinar organised by the Italian Young Nuclear Society Generation Network. Thomas Thor is proud to support the Young Generation Nuclear Network and the International Youth Nuclear Congress.
Read MoreEnergy ministers include nuclear in the clean energy mix
Issued 24 May 2018 Energy ministers today endorsed nuclear energy’s role in a future clean energy mix at an initiative launched during the Clean Energy Ministerial in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Nuclear Innovation: Clean Energy Future (NICE Future) initiative will play a crucial role in multilateral dialogue and engagement of policy makers on the role of…
Read More‘’Taming the Sun’’ – 5 take-aways for the nuclear industry from a book about solar power
It is always interesting to hear perspectives on the nuclear industry from experts in renewable energy, especially when they make objective arguments in favour of nuclear energy being a significant part of the global energy mix. ‘’Taming the Sun: innovations to harness solar energy and power the planet’’ is a book published in 2018 by…
Read MoreWilliam Roberts on Decommology
William Roberts is a Chartered Accountant, and previously the Chief Financial Officer of the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. William Roberts, you are a financial expert in nuclear , oil & gas, and other decommissioning and your consultancy is called Decommology. How did you come up with that term? I simply noticed a lack of definition…
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