Ep. 77 - Neil Wilmshurst, EPRI
Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy - En podcast af Bret Kugelmass, Energy Impact Center
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In this episode we discuss...
- Neil’s background in the British Navy and his personal journey in the nuclear industry
- Neil’s work as a system engineer at Sizewell
- The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) and its work to increase a power plant’s capacity factor and uptime
- Understanding a plant’s realtime risk profile
- EPRI’s relationship with the nuclear industry and where it gets its funding
- EPRI’s research surrounding operations and maintenance cost as well as capital cost
- EPRI’s long term work supporting small modular reactors
- Gen IV reactors and what we need to do now to support their implementation in the coming decades
