Cameco makes the case for large nuclear reactors
About this episode
Dan Testa interviews Grant Isaac about the advancements in large nuclear reactors and the current state of the nuclear industry in North America.
Much of the current discussion about nuclear power focuses on advanced technologies, from the potential for nuclear fusion to the development of various designs for small, modular reactors. But if we ask what new nuclear reactors have been built recently in North America and are up and running? The answer is the two reactors at the Vogtle plant in Georgia, which use Westinghouse Electric's AP1000 design. In this episode, Dan Testa interviews Grant Isaac , president and COO of Cameco Corp., a uranium mining and production company that is co-owner of Westinghouse Electric. Isaac says the global nuclear industry is making significant improvements in cost and execution when it comes to building new projects and refurbishing existing reactors – and that the pieces are lining up in the US for utilities to invest in new, large nuclear reactors using Westinghouse's AP1000 design.
People in this episode
Host: Dan Testa
Guest: Grant Isaac
Topics covered
- nuclear power
- advanced technologies
- large nuclear reactors
- uranium mining
- Westinghouse Electric
- cost improvements
- US utilities
Keywords
- nuclear power
- Cameco
- Westinghouse
- AP1000
- Vogtle plant
- uranium
- nuclear reactors
- cost improvements
- utilities
- nuclear industry
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Cameco Corp., Westinghouse Electric
Places: Vogtle plant, Georgia
More episodes of Energy Evolution
- Moving beyond the grid bottleneck with smart technology
- The summer stress test: How heat waves are rewiring Europe's power markets
- The new economics of renewable energy: Why transmission trumps technology
- What California's launch of an extended day-ahead market means for the western US
- How the Iran war is challenging and changing Europe's gas market
- How battery storage is transforming the power grid
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Energy Evolution podcast page.