Ep. 77 - Neil Wilmshurst, EPRI

Published: Sept. 16, 2018, 10 a.m.

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