Ep 77: Neil Wilmshurst, Electric Power Research Institute

In this episode we discuss...

• Neil’s background in the British Navy and his personal journey in the nuclear industry
• Neil’s work as a system engineer at Sizewell
• The Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) and its work to increase a power plant’s capacity factor and uptime
• Understanding a plant’s realtime risk profile
• EPRI’s relationship with the nuclear industry and where it gets its funding
• EPRI’s research surrounding operations and maintenance cost as well as capital cost
• EPRI’s long term work supporting small modular reactors
• Gen IV reactors and what we need to do now to support their implementation in the coming decades