Global Launch of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2025

The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2025

Global Launch Event

🗓 Monday, 22 September 2025

🕘 10:00 – 12:30 (CET)

(Welcome coffee and registrations start at 9:30)

📍Spazio Europa Via Quattro Novembre, 149 - 00187 Rome

🗣 English and Italian, with simultaneous translation

➡️ To attend, please register here

PROGRAM

Chaired by ELENA COMELLI, Independent Journalist

➣ Welcome: BENJAMIN FISHMAN | Heinrich Böll Stiftung Paris, France

➣ General Introduction: LETIZIA MAGALDI | President, Kyoto Club, Rome, Italy

➣ Topical Introduction: JOCHEN AHLSWEDE | Head of Directorate-General, Research and Long-term Documentation German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE)

Presentation WNISR2025

➤ Global Overview

MYCLE SCHNEIDER | Independent Analysist, Paris, France; WNISR Coordinator and Publisher

➤ South Africa & Potential Newcomer Countries in Africa

HARTMUT WINKLER | Prof, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; WNISR Contributing Author (via Zoom)

➤ Russia, Ukraine & Russia Nuclear Interdependencies

DMITRY GORCHAKOV | Nuclear Advisor, Bellona Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania; WNISR Contributing Author

➤  Fukushima Status Report and Japan Focus

TATSUJIRO SUZUKI | Prof, Nagasaki University, Japan; WNISR Contributing Author (via Zoom)

➤  Decommissioning Status Report

ALEXANDER WIMMERS | Research Associate, Berlin University of Technology, Germany; WNISR Contributing Author

➤  Challenges of Integrating Nuclear Power into the Energy System - Nuclear Power vs. Renewable Energy Deployment

RUGGERO SCHLEICHER-TAPPESER | Independent Consultant and Writer, Berlin, Germany; WNISR Contributing Author

➣ Conclusions : LETIZIA MAGALDI

Note: the event will prioritize questions from media representatives, however a public event with a similar program will also be held in the afternoon (details below).

The event will be followed by a light lunch from 12:30 to 13:45.

BACKGROUND

The annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) is an indispensable source of reliable, fact-based information and provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear power plant data, including information on age, operation, production, and construction of reactors. In addition, the WNISR2025 assesses in an in-depth focus chapter the Challenges of Integrating Nuclear Power into the Energy System, a compatibility analysis of nuclear energy with modern renewables-based electricity systems, complemented by a comparative analysis of Nuclear Power vs. Renewable Energy Deployment. Solar plus storage increasingly emerges as a major game changer. A chapter on Russian Nuclear Interdependencies looks not only into supplies from Russia but also into western industries’ dependence on Russia as a client for their products. The state of development—less advanced than generally thought—of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) is subject to a dedicated chapter. Most of the Potential Nuclear Newcomer Countries assessed—including Italy—are in very early stages of planning. The Fukushima Status Report evaluates persistent onsite and offsite challenges 14 years after the disaster began. The Decommissioning Status Report provides an overview of the current situation of the 218 closed reactors in the world (only nine have been released as greenfield sites). Overall, the industrial reality of the global nuclear sector that sees most of the indicators in decline is very different from public perception.

For more information and past reports, published annually since 2007 see http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/.

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The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2025: Public Event

🗓 Monday, 22 September 2025

🕓 14:00-17:30 (CET)

📍Spazio Europa, Via Quattro Novembre, 149 - 00187 Rome

🗣 English and Italian, with simultaneous translation

PROGRAM

Chaired by SILVIA ZAMBONI, Independent Journalist and Writer

➣ Topical Introduction: JOCHEN AHLSWEDE | Head of Directorate-General, Research and Long-term Documentation German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE)

Presentation WNISR2025

➤ Global Overview

MYCLE SCHNEIDER | Independent Analysist, Paris, France; WNISR Coordinator and Publisher

➤ Russia, Ukraine & Russia Nuclear Interdependencies

DMITRY GORCHAKOV | Nuclear Advisor, Bellona Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania; WNISR Contributing Author

➤  United States Focus, Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Power

TIMOTHY JUDSON | Independent Consultant, Syracuse, New York, United State; WNISR Contributing Author (via Zoom)

➤  Fukushima Status Report

PHRED DVORAK | Independent Journalist, Washington D.C., United States; WNISR Contributing Author (via Zoom)

➤  Decommissioning Status Report

ALEXANDER WIMMERS | Research Associate, Berlin University of Technology, Germany; WNISR Contributing Author

➤  Challenges of Integrating Nuclear Power into the Energy System - Nuclear Power vs. Renewable Energy Deployment

RUGGERO SCHLEICHER-TAPPESER | Independent Consultant and Writer, Berlin, Germany; WNISR Contributing Author

EXPERT ROUNDTABLE: What do the WNISR2025 results mean for Italy’s energy policy design?

LIVIO DE SANTOLI | Sustainability Rector, La Sapienza University

MARIAGRAZIA MIDULLA | Head, Energy & Climate, WWF Italy

GIANNI SILVESTRINI | Kyoto Club

GB ZORZOLI | Honorary President, FREE

PIPPO ONUFRIO | Senior Advisor, Greenpeace Italia

ANNALISA CORRADO | Member of the European Parliament (tbc)

ATTILIO PIATTELLI | President, FREE

BENEDETTA SCUDERI | Member of the European Parliament (tbc)

➣ Conclusions : GIANNI SILVESTRINI

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