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Paris talks: a climate for action?
Paris talks: a climate for action?
COP 21 will need to prove that the international community has not failed on climate change, writes Jonathan Cobb.
Podcasts & Features · Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Learning from mining's past
Learning from mining's past
Public perception of uranium mining is largely based on the poor, unregulated practices of the industry's earliest days. But the industry has learned from its past, and modern practices and regulatory regimes have transformed uranium mining into one of the most highly regulated and safest forms of mining in the world today, writes Robert Vance.
Podcasts & Features · Thursday, 18 September 2014
Ditch the jargon
Ditch the jargon

To attract financial institutions to new build projects, the nuclear industry needs to avoid 'nuke-speak' and learn to talk like a banker, writes George Borovas.听

Podcasts & Features · Friday, 12 September 2014
Paving the way for nuclear in Australia
Paving the way for nuclear in Australia
Australia's potential utilization of nuclear energy is several years away, but a roadmap has been drawn up by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering to clear the path for this, writes Warwick Pipe.
Podcasts & Features · Tuesday, 9 September 2014
China's new nuclear baby
China's new nuclear baby
China has formally launched its first indigenous nuclear power reactor design, with some French ancestry but born of two major internal contests, writes Ian Hore-Lacy.
Podcasts & Features · Tuesday, 2 September 2014
What was deadly at Fukushima?
What was deadly at Fukushima?

What turned Fukushima from a medium-ranking industrial accident, of the kind the happens perhaps eight or ten times a year, into a disaster, with a reported death toll among the evacuees of over 1000?听It wasn't the radiation, writes Malcolm Grimston.

Podcasts & Features · Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Banking on nuclear
Banking on nuclear
The nuclear industry needs to satisfy the multi-criteria approach to risk that banks take when they decide whether to invest in a large infrastructure project. Only then, can it expect to attract this form of financing to nuclear new build projects, writes Ron Cameron.
Podcasts & Features · Monday, 18 August 2014
Crunch time for the EU
Crunch time for the EU
With the average age of European Union (EU) nuclear plants now at around 30 years, bringing enough new capacity online to match that lost through the closure of old nuclear plants will present a major challenge, writes Stephen Tarlton.
Podcasts & Features · Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Australian uranium in flux
Australian uranium in flux
There has arguably never been a more eventful year in Australia's uranium history than that to mid 2014. While low prices were directly or indirectly the cause of some events, exploration, innovation and determination dictated some of the script, writes Ian Hore-Lacy.
Podcasts & Features · Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Viewpoint: Can americium replace plutonium in space missions?
Viewpoint: Can americium replace plutonium in space missions?
Work by the UK's National Nuclear Laboratory to recover americium-241 from the UK's ageing civil plutonium stockpile under a contract with the European Space Agency raises some interesting issues, writes Ian Hore-Lacy.
Podcasts & Features · Monday, 28 July 2014
Cosmic recycling
Cosmic recycling
Man has been sifting through trash for millennia, but the extraction of americium-241 waste from the UK's stockpile of civilian plutonium takes the exercise to a whole new dimension. Am-241 - a decay product of plutonium-241 - is the most prevalent isotope of americium in long-term stored plutonium and is currently considered to be waste.
Podcasts & Features · Monday, 21 July 2014
Small reactor developers assess UK-US collaboration
Small reactor developers assess UK-US collaboration
Podcasts & Features · Tuesday, 15 July 2014
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