INVITATION
Pre-Release Press Briefing on the New World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2014
July 29, 2014, 8:30 - 9:30am
Breakfast will be served from 8:00am.
Heinrich Böll Foundation
1432 K Street NW, Suite 500,
Washington DC, 20005
Featuring
Mycle Schneider, Lead Author
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2014
Please note: Embargoed copies of the report will be sent out the day before the briefing for those registered for the event. A call-in option will be available for those who cannot join us in person. Please contact Rebecca Bertram to obtain the phone number to call in.
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The Heinrich Böll Foundation is pleased to invite you to an exclusive press briefing on the new World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2014. The report will be released later on July 29.
Plummeting natural gas prices, sovereign debt crisis, increasing costs and improved economic conditions for renewable energy sources have created a challenging global environment for nuclear power. Contrary to the widespread perception - that we are seeing a global renaissance in nuclear power - this industry is actually in decline. The report provides a vital reality check to the current situation of the global nuclear industry as well as identifying important global nuclear trends, in particular with its renewable energy competitors. This year's report features an in-depth reassessment of the nuclear power sector in Japan post-Fukushima: all of the Japanese reactors are currently shut down, dramatically reducing the number of operating reactors in the world. Time to adjust world nuclear statistics to industrial reality.
Mycle Schneider, lead author of the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report, is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), based at Princeton University, and a laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize". He is the Coordinator of the Seoul International Energy Advisory Council (SIEAC). He has advised the French Environment Minister, the Belgian Minister for Energy and Sustainable Development as well as the German Environment Ministry, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and others. Mycle has given evidence or held briefings at parliaments in 14 countries and given lectures at twenty universities and engineering schools in ten countries. He is a frequent speaker at renowned international energy events.