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Monday 17 November 2008
to Tuesday 18 November 2008

Location

To enable as open a debate as possible, this conference will be held under the Chatham House Rule.
The Chatham House Rule: Information for journalists

Sponsored by

• EDF Energy
• GE Hitachi
  
• Westinghouse

The Move Back to Nuclear

The speed with which nuclear energy has reestablished itself in the developed world as a credible option in helping to address the twin challenges of secure and environmentally acceptable energy supplies is remarkable. After twenty years in which new orders more or less dried up outside the Asia-Pacific region, new reactors have been ordered in Finland and France, license applications are being made in the USA and a range of other countries, including the UK, are considering a move back into nuclear energy.

Lessons From the Past and Future Challenges

At this major 2-day international conference the following questions will be discussed:

Why this change? Is it realistic? What obstacles does the industry face? What lessons can be learned about that first major expansion phase for nuclear technology - what were its successes and failures - and how can those lessons be applied to the situation the world now finds itself in with regard to energy supplies?

Keynote Speakers

• Professor Dieter Helm CBE
  Fellow of New College
  University of Oxford
  
  
• J Frank Mermoud
  Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs
  US Department of State
  
  
• Mike O'Brien MP
  Minister of State
  Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK
  
  
• Dennis Spurgeon
  Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
  US Department of Energy
  

Speaker Highlights

• Ute Blohm-Hieber
  Head of the Unit for Nuclear Energy, Waste Management and Transport
  Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, European Commission
  
  
• Dr Leonid Bolshov
  Director, Nuclear Safety Institute
  Russian Academy of Sciences
  
  
• Robert Davies
  UK Country Director
  AREVA NP
  
  
• Vincent de Rivaz
  Chief Executive
  EDF Energy
  
  
• Malcolm Grimston
  Associate Fellow
  Chatham House
  
  
• Charles Hendry MP
  Shadow Minister for Energy, Industry and Postal Affairs, UK
  
  
• Lady Barbara Judge
  Chair
  UK Atomic Energy Authority
  
  
• Stephen W Kidd
  Director of Strategy and Research
  World Nuclear Association
  
  
• Professor Gordon MacKerron
  Director, Sussex Energy Group, Science and Technology Policy Research
  University of Sussex
  
  
• David Porter OBE
  Chief Executive
  Association of Electricity Producers
  
  
• David Powell
  Regional Vice President for the UK
  Westinghouse
  
  
• Dr M V Ramana
  Senior Fellow
  Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore
  
  
• Sharon Squassoni
  Senior Associate
  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  
  

Media Partners

• African Energy
• Energy Intelligence
• Eurekahedge
• Heren Energy
• Nuclear Industry Association
• TIME magazine

• conferences@chathamhouse.org.uk
• Telephone +44 (0)20 7957 5754

Book your seat now for this international 2-day conference.