Posts Tagged ‘energy’
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…
Read MoreZion 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…
Read MoreBuilding 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…
Read MoreJulia Pyke, EDF, on Regenerating Parts of the UK through New Nuclear
Julia Pyke, Director of Financing, on Sizewell project and its original approach on design and construction. “Sizewell will be built on the success of Hinkley”.
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 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 MoreNuclear potentials in a no-nuke time
Written by Dr. Fatone. Is nuclear energy, after less than 75 years from the first nuclear reactor, coming to an end? The term “nuclear” caused troubled thoughts and unclear feelings. The world’s first controlled artificial nuclear reaction happened in the Chicago Pile 1 (CP-1), on the 2nd of December 1942. Under the supervision of the…
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