The end of another show is a sad but proud moment for the WNE team. We’re sad that it will

be two years before we can enjoy another intense three days with you, and immensely proud of what was achieved in Paris in June.

Our numbers were up from the 2016 show and we had more high-ranking visitors from among the 62

countries represented.I’m delighted to say our new

features went down well. You like the new location, the new workshop format and the chance to interact with panellists, the first-of-a-kind guided tours and lunch debates.

Most of all, you like the business networking opportunities that increase with every show. We saw

many contracts and agreements signed, and we witnessed the birth of a new grouping for this wonderful community in GIFEN.

All this encourages us to be even more ambitious for 2020. We have plenty of ideas.

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EDITORIAL I GÉRARD KOTTMANN

‘ADIEU’ UNTIL THE NEXT WORLD NUCLEAR EXHIBITION IN 2020

CONTENTSSMEs go bigtime

Our Awards clarioned achievements, large and small

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Gérard Kottmann Président, WNE and AIFEN

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Tour de force

Applications for virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) were a feature at WNE 2018 as exhibitors

demonstrated futuristic tools that are entering the nuclear industry mainstream today.

Headsets such as these on the EDF stand gave show-

goers a glimpse into VR’s use in education and training for the next generation of nuclear technicians.

Their proponents say the use of VR/AR will be widespread by the time the next WNE rolls around. We look forward to ‘seeing’ more examples in 2020.

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With no shortage of advanced reactor concepts and designs, the panel of experts

at the second WNE lunch debate identified finance, not technology, as their major challenge.

“When you say ‘nuclear’, people are afraid and you lose 90% of your investors immediately,” said Rory O’Sullivan of Moltex Energy, a UK-based technology development company. He was taking part in the debate on ‘Advanced reactors, Gen IV and beyond’ during Investors’ Day.

Other speakers agreed. Troels Schönfeldt of Seaborg, a Danish start-up developing an ultra-compact molten salt reactor (MSR), said his

FINANCE REMAINS BIGGEST CHALLENGELUNCH DEBATE I GEN IV PANEL

company would likely have to re-establish itself outside Europe to move forward. “Europe is very conservative. It’s hard to get funding. It’s actually

slowing us down.” Jeffrey C Harper of X-Energy, a US company developing a high-temperature gas-cooled pebble bed modular reactor, the Xe-100, said public perception of nuclear was “problematic”, with most people failing to differentiate between large NPPs and “what we’re trying to achieve here with our designs.”

François Gauché of CEA, the French alternative energies and atomic energy commission, suggested the challenge lay in convincing stakeholders, including the general population, of “the benefits of these advanced technologies in terms of their contribution to the fight against climate change, the services they can render, for example with nuclear waste, and what they can do in decarbonising other sectors of the economy.”

Schönfeldt said his company offered “another take” on nuclear power with its technology-focused modular approach. With MSRs, he said, “you make all the complicated engineering systems redundant. If you can do that, you have massive savings.”

He suggested the civil nuclear industry was “getting in the way” of deploying nuclear power, because the industry had lost sight of the needs of the ultimate customers, the people. “They want something that is green, non-polluting and sustainable. Here I see people emphasising that it’s safe and they can decommission it – that’s the wrong way to sell it.”

Simon Irish of Terrestrial Energy, a Canadian developer of advanced NPPs with its proprietary Integral MSR (IMSR) technology, said the nuclear industry “can’t operate in a vacuum. We need a supportive industrial policy environment in our core markets.”

Irish said nuclear has to innovate to compete with its rival sources of power; fossil fuels for example have achieved great commercial success

in the last decade with hydraulic fracturing.

O’Sullivan said Moltex’s reactor design features “unparalleled safety”. With no emergency planning zone needed, it offers “infinite walkaway safety. This leads to simplicity of design, ease of construction and low cost, especially when compared with coal. If you don’t get that, it’s not even worth trying.”

Conditions for innovationGauché said for innovation to flourish, several conditions had to be met, including three important points of policy. These he cited as the need for a level playing field for all players in electricity markets, a recognition of nuclear’s superior carbon footprint, and the development of international licensing and standards. “There are many initiatives aimed at harmonising,” he said. “No country in the future can expect its regulators to understand all the technologies at the same time.”

Bernard Bigot of ITER, the international nuclear fusion demonstrator, said he was convinced ITER is the “breakthrough” that will be able to provide the world with a long-term solution to its electricity needs. It is an “infinitely safe” system, he said, because at any time only a very small amount of the hydrogen isotope fuel is within the reactors, and it does not release radioactive matter. This goes some way to explaining why the project partners accept the large investment it takes.

Vyacheslav Pershukov of Rosatom said the Russian energy company has been looking into MSRs for 30 years. As well as reactors, the fuel cycle is a focus of research. Here the objective is to create “inherent safety” with alternatives to the uranium fuel cycle.

He predicted a commercial fast reactor with full closed fuel cycle would be in operation within 10 years.

The panel of experts at the second WNE lunch debate identified finance as their major challenge

Vincent Merlin and

some of the Vallourec

smart tubes

Tubular bellesWhile Vallourec may be best known for its overarching flagship steam generator tubes, the company’s Valinox Nucléaire was at WNE with just so much more. “We have a whole range of what we call Smart Tubes on display, for the nuclear environment,” said business development manager Vincent Merlin. “The nuclear industry requires ongoing tracking from the start of the product to delivery,” Merlin said. “We work with a qualified subcontractor network that delivers small to large quantities with stringent specifications.”

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ROADMAP FOR JOINT FRANCO-BRITISH EFFORTS IN D&D

France’s major energy giant EDF Group was demonstrating its desire for greater partnerships as the WNE show drew to a close, signing a series of partnership

agreements and MoUs.The first agreement was with

Rosatom, the Russian state atomic energy corporation, with which EDF signed an MoU for the development of innovative cooperation. The two organisations will come together for R&D with the aim of developing innovative products and solutions for the benefit of the competitiveness and safety of nuclear power plants and to

Orano has signed a ‘roadmap of collaboration’ with the

UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) which will set out the way the two entities will work together in advancing civil nuclear decommissioning, clean-up and hazard reduction.

Since January, when the French and British governments signed a Declaration of Intent, Orano and the NDA have held high-level discussions to establish how they, as liability owners, can share experience and reduce the cost of decommissioning the two countries’ legacy nuclear programmes.

Orano and the NDA have similar

histories dealing with technical challenges in dismantling facilities, management of legacy waste and final estate definition. Finding ways to address these issues together in a timely and economically efficient manner is a key goal of this collaboration.

NDA chief executive David Peattie, noting the “unrivalled experience” of the UK and France in the nuclear sector, said: “This roadmap sets the direction towards a brighter future for us to work with Orano as we progress our decommissioning missions in the UK and France.”

Guillaume Dureau, Orano’s senior executive vice-president, Customers,

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LINKS WITH NEW DEALS

Sign of the times: Alexey Likhachev, general director of Rosatom and Jean-Bernard Lévy, chairman and CEO of EDF Group sign the agreement at WNE

promote them on the global market.The potential projects outlined in the

document included the development of additive technologies, energy storage, digitalisation and modelling as well as cooperation on fast neutron reactors.

“We have a long-standing and successful cooperation with France in the science and technology sector,” said Rosatom general director Alexey Likhachev.

“Today we’ve made another important step toward developing the scientific potential of our countries. That will allow us to move not only our companies, but the whole nuclear industry forward.”

The second agreement, which EDF signed with Dassault Systémes and Capgemini, will digitally transform EDF’s nuclear engineering activities, the company said.

Under the long-term partnership agreement, Dassault Systémes and Capgemini will support EDF in the digitalisation of its plant engineering projects.

The 20-year deal will see EDF using Dassault’s 3DExperience platform to design the digital twins of nuclear plants, whether they are at the design, construction or operational phase. Capgemini will provide consulting, technology and systems integration services.

Strategy, Innovation and R&D, said: “We are convinced this decommissioning collaboration will be fruitful. We have

a strong common interest in sharing our lessons learned and defining the best value.”

Orano’s Guillaume Dureau (left) and NDA chief executive David Peattie put pen to paper at the show

Today we’ve made another important step toward developing the scientific potential of our countries. That will allow us to move not only our companies, but the whole nuclear industry forward —Alexey Likhachev

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Above: A down-to-earth solution from Rovenso. Thomas Estier with the revolutionary, agile ROVéo

The Start-up Planet zone

was an encouraging new addition to WNE 2018

Switzerland is becoming recognised as the global epicentre for advanced robotics.

Technical institutes ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne (EPFL) consistently rank as Europe’s finest. With only 8.5m people, Switzerland has the world’s highest proportion of peer-reviewed scientific publications in relation to its population.

No surprise then that Rovenso, one of the businesses making an impact at the Start-up Planet, was a spin-off from EPFL. Thomas Estier had worked on the Swiss contender for the European Space Agency’s mission to Mars and when he heard about challenges that emergency incident workers were facing he thought back to some of the space concepts and realised there was potential in the market.

The result was Rovenso and its ROVéo robot, described as a grandchild of the Mars competition.

The start-up company is now operating in China in a fire-fighting support role and in Switzerland on surveillance and installation protection. Rovenso was at WNE to show the nuclear industry the potential for ROVéo, the revolutionary four-wheeled robot which is capable of easily overcoming unstructured obstacles, as well as vertical steps bigger than twice its wheel size.

“With our agile robots, we help our customers deploying robotics in complex outdoors scenarios, using both remote operated tasks and automated processes. Our mission is to keep workers out of harm’s way,” said Estier. “The nuclear industry was a logical step.

START-UP FOCUS

SMALL COMPANIES, BIG IDEAS...

Disruptive technologies and new solutions to old problems inevitably come

from small start-up businesses and at WNE, the big established companies flocked to the new Start-up Planet zone where the innovators pitched their new concepts and products.

From their open-plan pop-up stands, entrepreneurs welcomed visitors and outlined

their ideas and solutions for the nuclear industry.

“Start-ups contribute to innovation by reinventing the field and reinforcing its excellence and competitiveness,” said Gérard Kottmann, president of WNE and AIFEN.

Already at the show, the start-ups were seeing progress with partnership deals and new business successes being confirmed.

OBSTACLES NOT A PROBLEM FOR MARTIAN ‘GRANDCHILD’

“In deconstruction projects where mobility is a problem ROVéo can climb stairs or over 30cm obstructions.”

During demonstrations at WNE, Rovenso showed how ROVéo has

advantages over other mobility solutions. It may not be out of this world like its grandparent, but with sensors as payload, it offers a down-to-earth solution. GL

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Turner and Darren Oliver with

Sensaweb’s real-time radiation monitor

RIUM with a view: At WNE, Icohup was showing off the sensor on a remotely operated vehicle

Icohup connects big with small sensor

New Australian company Sensaweb was at WNE showing its real-time radiation

monitor for the first time in public.Radiation consultant Simon Turner

developed the device and set up Sensaweb after he had spent three years searching in vain for a radiation monitor that met his professional requirements. He brought in co-founder Darren Oliver for his 20 years of IT and business management skills.

Sensaweb’s monitor is GPS tracked and has a built-in communications package for transmitting data to the user. After earlier unsatisfactory experiences with another company’s monitor, ease of operation was a prime requirement for Sensaweb’s tool.

The monitors can be used for any type of radiation monitoring, from land rehabilitation and decommissioning

projects to keeping track of radiation levels in medical imaging facilities to ensure the health of personnel. Multiple units can be installed in fixed positions or on vehicles, which allows managers to keep track of radiation levels in remote facilities.

The user can set whatever limits they wish on the monitor; any breach of those limits will trigger an e-mail and text message alert to the official responsible for radiation health and safety.

The monitors have already been sold to clients in the mining and medical sectors, said Turner, and talks are under way with several Australian federal organisations who have expressed interest in the devices.

Sensaweb hopes to have an even smaller, wearable version available by September.

Start-up company Icohup has an instant solution to measuring

and identifying radiation types and levels.

The Lyon-based business came out of founder Gael Patton’s experience in the medical imagery sector. Having identified one of the problems of using Gamma spectrometry was the sheer size of the kit and the challenges in connectivity, he set about developing a smaller, lighter and more agile piece of equipment.

“This was December 2016,” said commercial director Billy Duchesne, “the time of Internet of Things (IoT) and greater portability.” The result was RIUM, the sensor which enables operators to measure and identify any type of radiation.

“If you think about using a Geiger counter you are exposed during the measuring and you have to wait for results,” Duchesne said.

RIUM is handheld, low cost and connected to a mobile app. Risk levels, protection tips and the nature of radioactivity are displayed in real time.

At WNE, Icohup was showing the sensor on a remotely operated vehicle. “As a connected object, RIUM can be deployed through fixed or mobile networks for industrial monitoring, smartcities supervision, drone purpose and many more situations.”

This process is now possible thanks to Icohup’s patents based on Scintillation Spectrometry technology. With its calibrator on, its sensitivity allows low source and motion detection

Icohup aims to develop the pollution sensors and extend the technologies to the general public and deploy networks measuring pollution. “Today we are focused on radioactivity,” said Duchesne, “tomorrow it could be Radon gas, pesticides and indeed every pollutant.”

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EASE OF OPERATION KEY IN AUSSIE RADIATION MONITOR

The user can set whatever limits they wish on the monitor; any breach of those limits will trigger an e-mail and text message alert to the official responsible for radiation health and safety...

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WNE AWARDS

This year’s WNE Awards gave smaller companies the opportunity to shine, with an SME/VSE category in each of the

four awards for the first time.It didn’t take long for the winners

to start seeing the value of their achievements.

Michel Sugnot, sales director of Laboratoire Cevidra, said winning the SME award for Nuclear Safety with its ‘New emergency medical treatment for external exposure to uranium, plutonium, americium and thorium’ immediately raised the company’s profile. By the afternoon of Day 3, they had received enquiries from Italy, Germany, Spain and Japan.

Fabien Berrier, chief executive of Spanish SME Newtesol, said his company’s Operational Excellence win was “huge... amazing”. Customers, including potential new ones, had already been in touch to enquire about their entry, ‘Ensuring protection of NPP components and structures from external flying objects’.

He said: “For a small company, winning this kind of award will

make us visible to the whole nuclear world in one shot.

“We were very surpr ised to win,” he added. “There are a lot of good SMEs at this exhibition with cutting-edge technology.”

Oreka Group was already a winner even before scooping its award for Innovation. The SME announced on the opening day of WNE that it had been acquired by EDF. Marketing executive Claire Girard said the company expected being part of EDF would help it grow. Its award, for 3D simulation tools, was the first such that Oreka had won.

At the other end of the scale, ABB, big company winner of the Operational Excellence award, said it meant a great deal to the company because it was judged by an independent jury of peers. “It’s big for us,” said sales director Emile Martinie, “and shows that working for the long term really pays off.”

It was also “rewarding” to be recognised for the success of a very challenging project, he said, and “proves we can deliver to a very demanding specification.”

The award was “unexpected” but

“will provide good motivation for the team too,” he added.

The judging panels were without exception impressed with the quality of the entries.

François Jacq, chief executive of CEA and chair of the Innovation jury, said the SME entries “positively stood out” with as many entrants as the big companies, showing that “innovation is key for all the nuclear industry.”

As well as the high quality of entries, his jury noted “the fact that some of those technologies could be applied soon in facilities – evidence of the dynamism of the nuclear industry.”

AWARD WINS BRING FAST REWARDS FOR SMES

Innovation SMEs/VSEs winner— Oreka Group (Simulation 3D) –

DEMplus for nuclear

Oreka was a winner even before its award

Nuclear safety SMEs/VSEs—Laboratoire Cevidra – New emergency medical treatment for external exposure to uranium, plutonium, americum and thorium

Laboratoire Cevidra’s team had plenty to celebrate at WNE

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said the SME entries “positively stood

out” with as many entrants as the big

companies, showing that “innovation is

key for all the nuclear industry”

SMEs among the 148 entries

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DAHER: NEW VALVE PROMISES PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCEFrench company Daher has developed

a new type of valve for the nuclear and energy sectors that it believes will cut maintenance costs for the components by 10-15%. Announced at WNE, it brings predictive maintenance – already widely used in aerospace – to this area of the nuclear industry.

Operators currently choose one of two approaches to valve maintenance: replacing components after a set period, even when they are still in perfect working order, which incurs financial losses, or replacing the valves

when they fail. This often leads to downtime, and in addition to the break in operations (which also incurs costs), staff need time to identify the breakdown, order a new valve and install it.

Daher has been working on an employee-led project to implement predictive maintenance for smart valves. This involves manufacturing the valves, equipping them with sensors to convert them into ‘smart’ components, and connecting them to an IoT platform developed by Nexess.

This detects weak signals in the valves’

‘signature’, which includes factors such as vibration speed, temperature and flow, to predict potential breakdowns.

Daher manufactures the valves, then installs sensors and signal diagnostics on them. “This project furthers Daher’s strategy for innovation and digitalisation while cementing the Group’s position as a designer and manufacturer of high-performance valves,” said Hervé de Chillaz, senior vice-president, Advanced Technologies Business Unit. “We aim to market the solution beginning in 2019.”

Exhibitions can always be a challenge to navigate your way around – but WNE 2018 came up with a perfect solution – one-hour guided tours.

On Days 2 and 3, groups of visitors joined a guide who led the way to the booths of selected industrial exhibitors, large and small, where they heard presentations and met key individuals.

Digitalisation was the theme of two guided tours, while two others looked at Decommissioning and Deconstruction (D&D). Each itinerary was repeated twice over the two days.

One delegate, Nazar Melnyk from CEA, said the programme was a useful way to meet companies and have the hard work of determining whom to see removed. “I would have preferred to have done it on the first day,” he said. “But it was interesting and worthwhile.”

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OAKRIDGE CELEBRATESWITH RECEPTIONS, NEW CONTRACTS AT WNEOakridge SAS celebrated

its 15th anniversary at WNE with a reception

on its stand for customers, employees and partners. The French company followed this up by signing several contracts during the course of the show.

OAKRIDGE-FRAZER-NASH CONSULTANCY: MOU SIGNATUREFor 10 years, Oakridge (FR) and Frazer-Nash Consultancy (UK) have had strong links. This Franco-British cooperation has already made it possible to deploy successful synergies within the EPR projects. By signing this MoU, the partners joined forces to develop their business across the globe.

OAKRIDGE-INGELIANCE PARTNERSHIP FOR NPPS IN FRANCEOakridge and Ingeliance celebrated a new partnership

on both their booths, illustrating how their skills and geographic location complement one another.

This allows the partners to deploy their forces together to serve NPPs with inspection plans, AP913, enviro requirement compliance, logistics efficiency, multi-year outages planning, document and maintenance management and more.

OAKRIDGE-REALSAFE-EKIUM-CONSULTEC FOR JAITAPUR Linking Oakridge’s ties with its Indian partner Relsafe to those of Ekium with its Mauritian subsidiary Consultec, the four companies signed a declaration of alliance in the field of engineering for the Indian Jaitapur project.

OAKRIDGE (FRANCE) AND RELSAFE (INDIA) SIGN AN MOUOakridge (France) and Relsafe

(India), long-standing partners, signed an MoU to extend their cooperation to new territories and new services. In particular, they launched their PSA Training Academy.

OAKRIDGE-AERGON-CEGELEC PARTNER FOR SAFETYOakridge, Aergon and Cegelec signed a declaration of alliance in the field of safety and safety-related calculations, for nuclear fuel cycle plants. With their respective experiences in the field, they join forces to meet the needs of French and Chinese customers in this area.

FIRST CRITICALITY TAISHANOakridge dedicated a ceremony to the first criticality of Taishan Unit 1, with invited guests from CGN and Framatome. Oakridge is proud of its participation in the site’s commissioning and start-up phase.

With the signature of two major partnerships, with the CEA and Rosatom, Lemer Pax has

demonstrated the extent of its know-how in the design and manufacture of biological protection at all levels of the life cycle of a nuclear or research facility.

The deployment of four hot cells for the radiosynthesis of fluorine 18 and carbon 11, to be delivered to the CEA in July, underlines the Nantes-based company’s capability in the early phases.

For the later phases, Lemer Pax is designing a pneumatic radioactive sample transfer system for the Rosatom fuel treatment centre in Krasnoyarsk, east of Moscow.

CEA’s goal is to offer an integrated solution for the production of radionuclides and the synthesis of innovative radiopharmaceuticals ‘by the dose’ that can be scaled up quickly to facilitate the emergence of novel radiopharmaceuticals in clinical practice.

With the new regulations and standards constantly evolving towards a higher level of safety for both personnel and the environment, the programmes (code named CAor and Lotus)

come just at the right time to upgrade the radiopharmaceutical production sector of Orsay’s laboratories. Lemer Pax was identified as the best partner to meet the ambitious specifications.

Dr Philippe Gervais, head of the CAor project and consultant for the Lotus micro fluidics project, said: “Today, we are concerned about protecting operators, but we are also very concerned about the environment. This is the major advance of recent years... today we are delivering personalised medicine.”

The new Lemer Pax hot cells will be installed in early July and will be operational before the end of the year.

Lemer Pax describes what it will do for Rosatom as a sophisticated and ingenious system that illustrates innovative French expertise.

Rosatom, one of the world’s leading nuclear technology businesses, brings together companies involved in every stage of the technology chain, from uranium mining and enrichment to design, production and recycling of nuclear fuel.

For Rosatom’s Krasnoyarsk site, Lemer Pax and its

distributor JSC Komfinservice will deliver a complete nuclear-grade stainless steel vacuum transfer system for two-way transfer of shuttles containing fuel samples between hot cells.

The system, designed by Lemer Pax in “record time”, comprises a network 1,500m long, equipped with 23 sending and receiving stations. It will be installed at the end of the year at the Russian site.

In addition, Lemer Pax designed and built a new sampling system for highly corrosive radioactive fluid, controlled via remote manipulation ball joints.

Lemer Pax also designed and developed the critical components including the viewing windows and the manipulation ball joints.

Joint effort to attract young talent into nuclear

The INSTN Foundation and Spark! Contest signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at

WNE, formalising their intention to work together on promoting the energy sector.

This agreement underlines the shared values of the French and British organisations and actions that will underpin their future collaborative work. These include the promotion of the low-carbon energy sector, and nuclear energy in particular; the dissemination of knowledge and international cooperation for innovative projects; and the commitment to lead students onto a pathway towards the energy sector.

Spark! Contest began in 2015 as a writing contest which invited current and former students of higher education in the UK and France to present innovative and novel thinking to contemporary energy challenges.

INSTN is a public higher education institution, administered by CEA, working to develop the talent needed to support the French nuclear industry.

New JV targets China market

Manoir Industries and Suez Group have signed a joint venture (JV) agreement to develop an

industrial maintenance and cleaning business for nuclear power plants in China. The agreement was signed at WNE.

Manoir Industries, active in China since the 1990s, was acquired in 2013 by the TaiHai Group, a leader of the civil nuclear power in China. Since then, the company has expanded its offer with cast, forged, boiler-making, welded, machined and assembled products, and has focused on services with interventions on site.

The two groups hope to leverage their expertise in industrial cleaning and knowledge of the Chinese nuclear market to create an effective partnership.

French expertise in biological protection

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PICTURE PERFECT

WNE 2018in pictures

WNE 2018 once again brought together in Paris many of

the world’s top companies, entrepreneurs and innovators

in the field of nuclear energy for three days of presentations,

discussions, networking and business. Here is a

photographic review of some of the show’s highlights

Below: A warm welcome to WNE 2018

Top: Interactive panel discussions and

(above) live questions

Above: Connect to nuclear – our ‘Yellow Brick Road’ to panel discussions”

Left/Right: Bruno Le

Maire, France’s economy

and finance minister,

and other dignitaries

met exhibitors as the show

opened

Above: Yukiya Amano, director-general of the AIEA, speaking at the opening ceremony

It’s good to talk – panel discussions

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WNEwinnersWinners

of WNE Awards (left) celebrate at

the show

More winners – WiN awards (above) Innovatome (far left) and Spark (left)

Above: Media representatives hard at work in

the Press Centre

Above: Slick organisation was

the order of the day with our concierge

service

Below: Talking tech – there was plenty to be learned on exhibitors’ stands

Investors’ Day breakfast meeting with Walter Howes

Shake on it – doing the business

Our new Guided Tours were very popular

Five minutes out to relax in the WNE lounge

Below: WNE ran a complimentary chauffeur service for VIPs coming

to the show

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‘Doing deals’– some of the many contract signings

at the show (above and right)

Above: How can I help you? Our information desk had no trouble

pointing people in the right direction

Right: Making a meal of it – lunch debates

Below: Innovation station – Daily pitches at the Start Up

Planet zone - one of WNE 2018’s new additions

A sampling of the 16 International Pavilions

at this year’s show. Clockwise from

bottom left:Spain, Wales, Poland,

Belgium, French Suppliers, UK, USA,

Korea and (right) the China Pavilion

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Below: Read all about it – the WNE Tribune published the highlights of the show every day

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LOOKING BACK

The third edition of WNE ended on 28 June with a vote of confidence for the nuclear

sector from the European Commission (EC) and encouragement to prioritise security, safety and transparency to build and maintain support among Europeans.

Massimo Garribba, the EC’s director of nuclear energy, safety and ITER, urged WNE participants to contribute to the first topical peer review under new European nuclear safety directives that focuses on aging nuclear power plants (NPPs). “This is a key challenge for future operations,” he said.

He told the audience at the closing ceremony that the EC is committed to ITER. “For us, ITER is absolutely strategic. ITER is the future but also the present of energy” through its impact in development of advanced technologies such as superconductive materials.

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technologies will bring “opportunities that nobody in the nuclear industry can afford to miss,” he added.

Gérard Kottmann, president of AIFEN and WNE, said business is “the DNA of WNE – business on an international level, through partnerships, through innovation.”

It showed through the number of contracts, agreements and important announcements – such as the creation

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of a new French nuclear industry umbrella group, GIFEN – signed or made at WNE.

He reminded his audience of the words of the opening ceremony guests, the French economy and finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, and Yukiya Amano, director-general of the AIEA. Both emphasised the need for nuclear in the long-term fight against climate change, a sentiment reflected

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in the WNE 2018 banner, ‘Nuclear excellence, a new era’.

Yukiya Amano had observed, after a tour of the show: “This is such an important event in the nuclear calendar. I have seen a lot of impressive companies and new technologies.”

His comment was mirrored by Elise Duval, director of Nucleopolis by Normandie Industries, who said: “We have been at WNE since it started. It is a very important event in our calendar and gives the opportunity for our members to come together as a trade group.”

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Left and below: There was plenty to capture everyone’s imagination, and plenty of opportunities to network at this year’s show

A bientôt! Until 23-25 June 2020We’ll be back in two years! Connect to Nuclear

once again at Paris Nord Villepointe, France.

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