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OPERA Online/In Person Presentation – The excitement around Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) – How did we get here?
IN PERSON SPACES TO ATTEND AND ALSO AVAILABLE TO ATTEND VIRTUALLY ONLINE - Invite link will be sent to all registered attendees nearer to the time of the presentation itself after bookings have closed.
Speaker:
Jasbir Sidhu, Chaucer Group
Presenter Bio:
Jasbir Sidhu holds an honours degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Manchester and an MBA from Surrey University. He has studied and worked predominantly in the Nuclear Industry for over 35 years and is one of the UK’s leading Nuclear Risk Analysts. Jasbir is the founder of Corporate Risk Associates (CRA - November 2000) and was at the helm for 24 years. CRA is one of the largest integrated Risk, Safety & Human Factors consultancies and is renowned for the delivery of 1st class quality services to the nuclear industry. Today, CRA is part of the Assystem family, which is a major, leading, independent design engineering company in the Nuclear World. In January 2022, Jasbir was appointed as the President of the UK Nuclear Institute and served a two-year term. The journey with the NI continues - Jasbir is the Past President and an Executive Board Member that promotes professionalism in the Nuclear Industry. Today, Jasbir is the Nuclear Consultant to Lloyd’s Nuclear Syndicate 1176 which is part of the Chaucer Group and is the Managing Partner of Nuclear Capital LLP (establishing a private Nuclear Investment Fund). Key focus areas - Finance, Insurance, Licensing, and Advisory across national and international nuclear projects and programmes.
Presentation Summary:
The presentation will cover:
- Chaucer/Syndicate 1176 summary – a few slides
- Current state of worldwide nuclear generation
- Existing technology largely Gen II moving towards Gen III SMRs and Gen IV AMRs
- Then onto nuclear finance and insurance – challenges – SMRs arguably make it easier?
- Wrap up
- Q&A
Date: Tuesday 10th March
Time:
IN PERSON - 12.30PM in person arrival - lunch and pre-meeting networking. If booking in person please ensure you let us know if you cannot make the event for catering reasons.
ONLINE - Presentation to commence at 1:00PM.
Physical venue (booked attendees only please):
PRE REGISTRATION AND PHOTO ID WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION.
TO BE HELD ONLINE OR LIMITED IN PERSON SPACES TO ATTEND ARE AVAILABLE - please ensure you select the correct option when booking.
Booking -
Members (CAN BOOK ONLINE OR IN PERSON) - should book via Webcollect as usual via this link - an invite link with further details will then be sent at a later date if attending online - or you will be registered as an in person attendee if booked to attend the venue on the day. Please ensure you select either ONLINE or IN PERSON booking dependent on which you require.
Non Members (CAN BOOK ONLINE OR IN PERSON UP TO A MAX OF 2 SEMINARS PER YEAR BEFORE MEMBERSHIP WILL BE REQUIRED) - Any non-members wishing to attend should email ianw_g@oilpera.com providing their name, job title, organisation and the seminar they wish to attend so that details can be sent through accordingly.
IMPORTANT - Please note that any non-members who wish to book in this way will also have to provide the name of a current OPERA member - who will then be notified to guarantee their booking - the booking will not be accepted if this information is not provided as this is for security purposes.
Non-member guests will be asked to purchase an OPERA subscription after more than 2 events have been attended as a guest.
Booking deadline: Friday 6th March at 1PM.