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Bringing you the news from the worldwide nuclear energy sector, interviews with key players and easy-to-follow guides to the nuclear essentials each month. The World Nuclear News team has been reporting about nuclear power since 2007. WNN is supported by the World Nuclear Association and draws on its global network of contacts across the industry, academia and international agencies.
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- 1 weeks ago31 min
The challenge of getting uranium from seawater
There's enough uranium in the world's oceans to power our current energy needs for hundreds of thousands of years. The challenge is finding a way to extract it at a cost that makes it a viable option. There have been various studies and trials carried out over the years - including in China and Japan - and in this episode we hear from Canon Bryan, founder and CEO of Supercritical Materials, about his US-based plan to secure uranium at scale, and at an economically viable cost, from the sea. B...
- 3 weeks ago38 min
Highlights from the 2026 World Nuclear Symposium
More than 1,300 people from 65 countries gathered in London for the 2026 World Nuclear Symposium. There was a packed programme of discussions, panels and networking, as well as a one-day summit focused on financing nuclear. The World Nuclear News team were there and have put together a report on the symposium's proceedings. People featured, in order of appearance: Sama Bilbao y León, Director General, World Nuclear AssociationMark Muldowney, MD, Energy, Resources and Infrastructure, BNP Parib...
- Sep 18, 202615 min
Norman Foster's symposium speech putting case for nuclear
In this bonus episode, hear the full speech at World Nuclear Symposium in London from internationally renowned architect Lord Norman Foster. In it he says that nuclear's ability to provide a "vast amount of power" with "a tiny imprint" means that micro-modular power units should be being produced at "industrial-scale, like jet engines" with the potential to autonomously power new developments and move beyond the "obsolete idea of a grid". Speaking without notes, the 91-year-old multi-aw...
- Sep 7, 202627 min
A new record year for nuclear energy, are tripling capacity plans on track?
Nuclear reactors worldwide generated 2702 TWh of electricity in 2025, beating the previous year's record of 2667 TWh, according to the newly published World Nuclear Outlook Report. The report also calculates that if all national targets for new nuclear capacity were achieved, total nuclear energy capacity would more than meet the widely-shared goal to at least triple nuclear capacity by 2050. The author of the World Nuclear Association report, Jonathan Cobb, who is senior programme lea...
- Aug 12, 202628 min
UxC's Anna Bryndza on uranium price reporting
Anna Bryndza is Executive Vice President for International at nuclear industry market research and analysis company UxC, which plays a key role in the nuclear fuel cycle via its publications such as Ux Weekly. It also publishes the industry standard uranium spot prices. In this episode, she talks with Claire Maden about the current uranium market and the outlook for demand - and how past experience can help inform an element of caution in terms of some of the more ebullient suggestions of how...
- Jul 29, 202627 min
The first World Nuclear Investment Guide unveiled
The inaugural World Nuclear Investment Guide aims to set out how governments, industry and financial institutions can create the conditions for the huge scale of investment required if the goal of at least tripling nuclear energy capacity by 2050 is to be achieved. In this episode, host Alex Hunt is joined by the lead author of the guide, World Nuclear Association's Lola Infante, and Ananya Modi, co-head of the Energy and Power Financing team at Rothschild & Co, one of the experts on the ...
- Jul 16, 202637 min
The US's historic Hanford site, and accelerated decommissioning
The Hanford site in the US has a history dating back to the 1940s when it was established as part of the Manhattan Project. Plutonium was produced at the site, with the last reactor shut down in 1971. The legacy is the Hanford Tank Farms, which is a collection of 177 underground waste storage tanks. In this episode we hear from Karthik Subramanian, Chief Engineer and Innovation Director for Hanford Tank Waste Operations Closure, about the history of the site and the clean-up work taking place...
- Jun 17, 202629 min
Urenco scaling up capacity to meet rising nuclear fuel demand
Urenco's chief commercial officer Laurent Odeh joins us and outlines how the leading uranium enrichment company is expanding its operations in the US, the Netherlands and Germany to meet the growing demand for nuclear fuel. Demand which is coming from both existing units and also some of the growing numbers of advanced reactors in development. He talks about the company's history and the experience it has gained, including the decisions it had to take during the 2010s and how they fit in with...
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