GLOBAL NUCLEAR COMMUNICATIONS

The nuclear industry has for too long taken a passive role in debates that determine how its technology is perceived by the public, but the climate crisis demands active communication about its many benefits, Rauli Partanen, the CEO of Think Atom, said yesterday in his address to delegates at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle forum. In his keynote speech, Selling the benefits instead of the fear - How to turn the discussion on the future of nuclear into an expansive and progressive one, Partanen said the positive facts about nuclear are lost to poor messaging.

The message that nuclear can speed the reduction in emissions, including in the hard-to-abate sectors, needs to be broadcast widely, and the nuclear industry should demand support from policymakers and legislators to create a fair market in clean energy, "where everyone pays for their external costs and everyone is allowed to participate". For example, environmental, social and governance funding should be technology neutral, enabling the nuclear industry to enjoy access to low-cost finance the way that other clean energy technologies already do.

The high rate of nuclear power plant construction seen in the 1970s and 1980s should be repeated over the next 40 years because "even when we get to net zero, we need to get into negative emissions, and that "is not going to happen by itself, it will need a lot of energy", he said.

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