Podcast: World Nuclear Supply Chain conference

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

More than 300 people from 27 countries attended the World Nuclear Association event, which was designed to strengthen the nuclear supply chain. They heard that there was an estimated USD2 trillion investment opportunity for the global supply chain over the next 15 years.

A succession of high-profile speakers gave their thoughts, advice and outlined what was necessary to ensure future success. World Nuclear News’s Warwick Pipe was there and he has gathered together a selection of extracts from the event.

This episode features, in order of appearance,

Sama Bilbao y León, World Nuclear Association
Vakis Ramany, EDF
Greg Thede, Aecon
Gary Rose, AtkinsRéalis
Jon Franke, Ontario Power Generation
Janne Mokka, Fortum
Hiroyuki Goto,  Kansai Electric Power Co
Gareth Vaughan, Amentum
Pawel Gajda, Polish Ministry of Industry
Rafal Kasprów, Orlen Synthos Green Energy
Carl Berglof, Swedish government’s National Nuclear New Build Coordinator
Andy Fry, GE Vernova Hitachi
Cosmin Ghita, Nuclearelectrica
Ruth Todd, Rolls-Royce SMR 
Marc Tannenbaum, EPRI
Shuo Kan, China Nuclear Power Engineering
Vivek Sharma, Adani 
Nora Signor, EDF
Gary Wolski, Curtiss-Wright
​- Jeremy Harrison, Government of Saskatchewan

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Episode credit:  Presenter Alex Hunt. Co-produced and mixed by Pixelkisser Production

(Cover picture credit: World Nuclear Association)

   

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