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“Without the WNISR we would lack a sound database on the reality around nuclear new-build programs internationally.”
Dr. Dörte Fouquet
Lawyer, Partner Becker-Büttner-Held, Germany, April 2018
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“I rely on WNISR’s reports with complete confidence that they will be trusted and respected for the accuracy of their data and the expertise of their analyses.”
Diane Curran
Attorney, Washington DC, USA, March 2018
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“This 2017 World Nuclear Industry Status Report is perhaps the most decisive document in the history of nuclear power. The report makes clear, in telling detail, that the debate is over.”
S. David Freeman
former Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), in the Foreword to WNISR2017, U.S.
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“Der WNISR ist eine hervorragende und wegen seiner Unabhängigkeit unerlässliche Wissensbasis für Entscheidungsträger aus Politik und Wirtschaft.”
Manfred Fischedick
Vice-President, Wuppertal Institute on Climate, Environment, Energy
Professor, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
Bergische Universität, Wuppertal, Germany, June 2017
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“The report provides authoritative, important information that cannot and should not be ignored, regardless of one’s attitudes about the nuclear industry.”
John Mecklin
Editor in chief, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, USA, June 2017
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“The WNISR is one of the most reliable, accurate and unbiased information sources on the status of the nuclear industry.”
Tatsujiro Suzuki
Professor, Director, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA), Nagasaki University, and Former Vice-Chairman, Japan Atomic Energy Commission, Japan, May 2017
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“The World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) is an important antidote to the nuclear-energy industry’s relentless boosterism."
Frank von Hippel
Professor of Public and International Affairs emeritus, Program on Science and Global Security, International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM)
Princeton University, USA, April 2017
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“The WNISR is especially very useful to teach students the distinction between opinions and facts, and to train them to the improvement of their arguments.”
Arnaud Delebarre
Professor, Energy Major Coordinator, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ParisTech Elite Institute of Technology (SPEIT), France/China, May 2017
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“Fantastic job! Prepping my nuclear lecture as usual this year and WNISR again an invaluable source…It is brilliant and a service to humanity.”
Lars J. Nilsson
Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund University, Sweden, April 2017
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“Je connais bien votre rapport qui est une référence, y compris en France.”
François Lévêque
Professeur d’économie, Mines-ParisTech, France
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“The most comprehensive, detailed, apolitical and honest report on the current status of the World’s Nuclear Industry.”
Laurent Segalen
Managing Partner at Megawatt-X, HEC School of Management, London, UK
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“As always, WNISR is invaluable."
Peter Bradford
Former Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA
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“Important and crucial to receive as every year the World Nuclear Industry Status Report.”
Thomas Johansson
“Co-Chair, Global Energy Assessment, IIASA”, Sweden/Austria
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“Labeling it a report is somewhat misleading. It’s more like an encyclopedia filled with facts and insights.”
Dave Lochbaum
Former Director of the Nuclear Safety Project Union of Concerned Scientists
Washington D.C., U.S.
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"... we attach more importance to the WNISR, primarily because we believe that this report is done without the interference of interest groups.”
Jade Huang
Vice-Secretary General
International Forum for Clean Energy (IFCE), Macao/Beijing, China, September 2018
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“A vital public service...
Uniquely independent, thorough,
and timely assessment."
Amory B. Lovins
Chairman, Rocky Mountain Institute
USA
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“This annual publication has over 20 years evolved into the most reliable,
strikingly original, comprehensive and penetrating assessment of the global nuclear industry.”
The Late Praful Bidwai
Financial Chronicle
Delhi, India
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“Without the objective and informed voice of this unique resource, government judges and other decision-makers would have little choice but to rely on the self-interested assertions of the nuclear industry.”
Diane Curran
Attorney, Washington DC
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“As nuclear hype and wishful thinking continue to flood the media with ’alternative facts’, the World Nuclear Industry Status Report is an essential link to nuclear reality.”
Walt Patterson
Associate Fellow, Chatham House
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“It is a set of data that helps to learn how to turn numbers into knowledge, especially in that domain of nuclear energy, which has been poorly debated in the past.”
Arnaud Delebarre
Director, ESSTIN, Nancy
