15.11.2024

The Japan Launch "The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024"

The annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear power plant data, including information on operation, production, construction, and decommissioning. It assesses the status of newbuild programs in existing as well as in potential newcomer nuclear countries. The report also compares the development of nuclear power and renewable energy globally.

Date: Friday, 15th November 2024 

Time: 11:00-13:00 (Doors open at 10:45)

Language: English/Japanese (Simultaneous translation) 

Venue: Sophia University Yotsuya Campus Building 2, 17th Floor, Room 1702

Cost: Free (Max seat capacity: 100 / registration required, link below)

 

Speakers:
Tina Burrett (Chair), Director, Institute of Comperative Culture

Mycle Schneider, Energy/Nuclear Policy Analyst, WNISR Coordinator and Publisher, Paris, France: Global Overview

Tatsujiro Suzuki, Prof. Nagasaki University, former Vice-Chair of Japan Atomic Energy Commission, WNISR Contributing Author: Fukushima Status Report and Japan Nuclear Policy

Mika Ohbayashi, Director, Renewable Energy Institute

 

WNISR2024 includes special focus chapters on Nuclear Power vs. Renewable Energy Deployment and Power Firming and Competitive Pressure on Nuclear Energy assesses how solar/wind + storage put increasing competitive pressures on the nuclear sector. Further focus chapters include an overview of Small Modular Reactor (SMR) developments; an analysis of Russia Dependencies of the global nuclear sector with a case study of Russian designed fuel assembly manufacturing; an analysis of the Militarization of Civil Power Plants based on the case study of tritium production for weapons in the U.S. and its significance for France; and an assessment of Civil-Military Cross-Financing in the U.K. Nuclear Sector discussing how tax- and rate-payers unknowingly subsidize the civil and military nuclear establishments. The Fukushima Status Report provides an overview of ongoing onsite/offsite challenges of the 2011-disaster. The Decommissioning Status Report looks at the current situation of the now over 200 closed nuclear power reactors.

For more information and past reports, published annually since 2007 see http://www.worldnuclearreport.org.

 

Hosted by Sophia University, Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC)
In Association with Renewable Energy Institute (REI), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (HBS)

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