Date: Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Time: 10h00–12h00 Washington D.C. Time (EDT)
16h00–18h00 Paris Time (CET)
Where: Virtual Venue – https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/ezzsrhaf
To attend, RSVP to Mark Drajem, [email protected], or Elizabeth Heyd, [email protected].
The event features a diverse line-up of distinguished speakers, all contributing authors:
- Global Overview
Mycle Schneider – Independent Consultant,
WNISR Coordinator & Lead Author
- Fukushima • Ten Years After
Tatsujiro Suzuki – Vice-Director,
Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University, and former Vice-Chair of Japan Atomic Energy Commission
- Chernobyl • 35 Years After the Disaster Began
Mariana Budjeryn – Research Associate
Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard Kennedy School
- Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
M.V. Ramana – Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
- Nuclear Power and Climate Change Resilience
Ali Ahmad – Research Fellow,
Project on Managing the Atom, and International Security Program (ISP), Harvard Kennedy School
and Thibault Laconde – Consulting Engineer, and Founding President,
Callendar
- Nuclear Power and Criminal Energy
Mathilde Le Moal – Criminologist, Research Associate at RealistRevolt, currently Research Intern at the Ministry of Defense, France
- Nuclear Power vs. Renewable Energy Deployment
Antony Froggatt – Independent Consultant, and Deputy Director & Senior Research Fellow,
Environment and Society Programme, Chatham House
- Introduction/Moderation
Geoffrey Fettus – Senior Attorney, NRDC
The event is hosted by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Washington D.C. co-hosted by the RAVEN project (Rural Action and Voices for the Environment) at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and the Environment & Society Program at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Speaker bios can be viewed here.
In addition, we have scheduled an SMR-focused event hosted by the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA), University of British Columbia, featuring M.V. Ramana, Ali Ahmad, Mycle Schneider, and moderated by SPPGA Director and former Chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Allison Macfarlane, on 6 October 2021 at 15h30–17h00 EDT (see here for details).
Background: The annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear power plant data, including information on operation, production and construction. The WNISR assesses the status of new-build programs in existing as well as in potential newcomer nuclear countries, and the status of decommissioning of closed reactors. The report also compares the development of nuclear power and renewable energy globally.
WNISR2021 contains several focus chapters, including a first assessment of Nuclear Power and Climate Change Resilience. A special Fukushima Status Report 10 Years After provides an overview of ongoing onsite/offsite challenges, health impacts, judicial decisions and cost estimates of the disaster. Chernobyl – 35 Years After the Disaster Began looks at advances in the cleanup and remaining challenges. For the first time, WNISR dedicates a chapter to the problem of Nuclear Power and Criminal Energy.