Topics covered by White, senior vice president of Energy and Environment International at Amentum, include:
* The change of attitudes which means that the future decommissioning process is included in the planning stages for new nuclear (and how that should reduce the number of ‘surprises’ when decommissioning plants)
* The company’s work on new nuclear in the UK at Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C and SMRs and operations in Poland, France, the Czech Republic as well as Norway and the Netherlands
* The benefits of bringing in technology, skills and people from other sectors (and countries) to help with what looks like being a forthcoming rapid expansion of new nuclear.
* Plus Amentum’s nuclear fusion work, including at ITER, and the general outlook for nuclear, and how financing and regulation can help industry meet the demand for new capacity
Also in this episode: Claire Maden’s conversation with Nima Ashkeboussi, vice president government relations and communications at Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), earlier this year at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle conference in Canada.
In it he talks about the company’s laser enrichment technology, explaining how it works and the big plans the company has – including 30-years’ worth of work relating to the US Department of Energy’s 200,000+ tonnes of depleted uranium. GLE’s plan is to re-enrich this, so cleaning up a stranded asset and in the process providing a new source of fresh fuel.
GLE began a large-scale enrichment demonstration programme in May, and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission accepted for review the company’s licensing application for a new facility to be built at Paducah, Kentucky earlier this month.
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Episode credit: Presenter Alex Hunt. Co-produced and mixed by Pixelkisser Production
Cover Picture: Courtesy of Amentum
