Nuclear fuel, financing, recruitment, net zero - World Nuclear Symposium 2023 special report
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*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 podcast, World Nuclear News reports on those sessions:The topics covered, in order:

• The launch of the Net Zero Nuclear campaign
• Publication of World Nuclear Association's Nuclear Fuel Report
• Recruitment and expanding the nuclear workforce
• How nuclear can decarbonise different industries
• Optimising plant life performance
• Investing in and financing of nuclear

We hear from, in order of appearance:

• Sama Bilbao y León, Director General of World Nuclear Association
• Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency
• Mohamed Al Hammadi, CEO, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation
• Kaajal Desai, Senior Programme Lead for Fuel Cycle, World Nuclear Association
• Malcolm Critchley, President and CEO ConverDyn
• Chris Frankland, Director of Sales and Marketing, Nuclear Fuels Corporation
• Jeanne Tortorelli, Director of Nuclear Fuel Supply at Constellation Energy Generation
• Tamer Albishawi, Chief Nuclear Officer at Hinkley Point C
• Callum Thomas, Chairman of Thomas Thor
• Grace Stanke, Nuclear Engineering Student, Nuclear Advocate and Miss America
• Charlotte Griffiths, Sustainable Energy Division of the UN Economic Commission for Europe
• Todd Noe, Director of Nuclear Technologies Strategy at Microsoft
• Mikal Bøe, Chairman and CEO Core Power
• Naoki Chigusa, CEO of World Association of Nuclear Operators
• Vinod Kumar, Station Director of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited's Kaiga 3 and 4
• Catherine Cornand, Senior Executive Vice President Framatome
• Chris Cunningham, Vice President Nuclear Projects at Ontario Power Generation
• Wolfgang Denk, Managing Director, Swissnuclear
• Keisuke Sadamori, Director Energy Markets and Security, International Energy Agency
• Iain Smedley, Global Chairman of Banking, Barclays
• Kevin Kelly, CFO Bruce Power
• Julien Bocobza, Partner, White & Case LLC
• Sophie Macfarlane-Smith, Head of Customer Engagement Rolls-Royce SMR
• Thomas Branche, Senior Vice President for Engineering, Assystem
• Rumina Velshi, President and CEO of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
• Erick van Egeraat, Architect
• Tim Gitzel, President and CEO Cameco

**Key links to find out more:**World Nuclear Symposium 2023)Nuclear Fuel Report 2023)Nuclear industry urged 'take advantage of window of opportunity')Net Zero Nuclear campaign launched, seeking to triple capacity by 2050)The challenge of recruiting a rapidly growing nuclear workforce)Positive trends continue for global nuclear fuel cycle)Successful nuclear projects key for future investments)

**Contact info:*[email protected]Episode credit:  Presenter Alex Hunt. Reports from Claire Maden and Warwick Pipe. Co-produced and mixed by Pixelkisser Production.*