The January Curious People Alumni Webinar discusses about The future of small modular reactors "SMRs".
There is a lot of discussion in many cities right now about small modular reactors. What are ”SMRs” and their new use cases such as cogeneration, district and industrial heating and ship propulsion? Why nuclear energy is worthwhile? What is the international outlook for small nuclear power plants?
From Social science perspective, who should be consulted if you want to locate a small nuclear power plant in the middle of a residential area? How citizens can get involved and how it can be done fairly? Lots of questions.
Experts of the topic are, Professor Juhani Hyvärinen, Laboratory of Nuclear Engineering, LUT School of Energy Systems and Associate professor, Social Sciences, LUT School of Engineering Sciences Matti Kojo. Roosa Talala, Junior Researcher from LUT School of Energy Systems will challenge them with questions.
The webinar is in English. Sign up for the webinar here.
Program
16.30 Welcome to Curious People Alumni Webinar
Päivi Mäkitalo, LUT Alumni Relations
16.35 The future of small modular reactors
Professor Juhani Hyvärinen, Laboratory of Nuclear Engineering, LUT School of Energy Systems
Associate professor, Matti Kojo, Social Sciences, LUT School of Engineering Sciences
17.05 Questions from the audience
17.20 Closing words, Päivi Mäkitalo, LUT Alumni Relations
Welcome!
