Global launch of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2023

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. The WNISR assesses the status of newbuild programs in existing as well as in potential newcomer nuclear countries and looks at the status of Small Modular Reactor (SMR) development.

WNISR2023 contains a comprehensive special focus chapter on Nuclear Economics and Finance that assesses how persistent competitive pressures force the nuclear sector to rely on increasing state support. Further focus chapters include an expanded analysis of U.S. nuclear policy and the multiple new subsidy mechanisms as well as an assessment of the struggling South African nuclear program. 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. While the chapter Nuclear Power vs. Renewable Energy Deployment provides an overview of the increasing gap between the development patterns of the two electricity generating technologies.

Programme

Welcome by Claudia Detsch, Director of Competence Centre Just Climate, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Introduction by Jochen Ahlswede, Head of Directorate-General, Research and International Cooperation, German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE)

Presentation WNISR2023:

• Global Overview by Mycle Schneider, WNISR Coordinator and Publisher, Paris, France
• United States Focus by Tim Judson, Independent Consultant, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., WNISR Contributing Author
• South Africa Focus by Hartmut Winkler, Prof., University of Johannesburg, South Africa, WNISR Contributing Author
• Special Focus: Nuclear Economics and Finance, by Doug Koplow, Founding Director, Earth Track, Cambridge, U.S.A., WNISR Contributing Author
• Fukushima Status Report by Tatsujiro Suzuki, Prof., Nagasaki University, former Vice-Chair of Japan Atomic Energy Commission, WNISR Contributing Author
• Decommissioning Status Report by Alexander James Wimmers, Research Associate, Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin), Germany, WNISR Contributing Author
• Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) by M.V. Ramana, Prof., University of British Columbia, Canada, WNISR Contributing Author

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

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For any question, please contact Melanie Bernhofer.