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Julia Pyke, recognized with a CBE in the June 2026 King's Birthday Honors for services to the UK nuclear energy industry, shares how reading English in university and pursuing legal training, matched with an interest in people, has enabled a career which is most notably associated with the successful development of the 3.2GW Sizewell C in Suffolk. Yes, she shares insight into successfully developi...

Threats and opportunities often go hand in hand, with innovation, technology, and collaboration offering solutions to advance security and stability, so suggests the Civilian Research and Development Foundation Global (CRDF Global). Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Security and Women Leadership is a focus for CRDF Global, with its Robin Copeland Memorial Fellowship (RCMF) program designed to build techn...

Digital Twins, Microgrids, Cyber Security, Predictive Baseload, Demand and Supply Optimization: fundamental to advancing nuclear power and data centers, so describes the brilliantly engaging, Matthew D. Chew from HY_Beecon https://hy-me.com.sg/.  Highlighting credible technical and engineering knowledge as a necessity for efficient investment and insurance decisions, attention is drawn to act...

“Drill, Baby, Drill!”  Albeit, for geothermal heat as a low-carbon replacement to fossil fuel, so say Jonathan Poh, Research Fellow (Geology) at Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technical University Singapore and Nicolas Eyssallenne , Founder of Karda One.  Is Geothermal a bankable energy source? This researcher and developer both suggest there are plausible mitigations to the first-...

“We are always bound for bigger things,” a lesson espoused by Evan, a youth alumnus of Halogen’s Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) program. https://halogen.sg/repository/stories/meet-evan-ismadi Ivy Tse, CEO, and her entire team are so clearly building confidence in teenagers, realizing a world made better by future-ready young people who step up and catalyze change in their communities...

Digital Twins, a.k.a, Virtual Twins, complemented by Artificial Intelligence, is not just a software but the catalyzer to enable the nuclear industry to, amongst others: ✅ Visualize the reality and feasibility of future design; ✅ Offer traceability to offer credibility and certainty; ✅ Create an interactive, ongoing data learning opportunity; and ✅ Lead to energy and financ...

An online conversation on offshore, maritime nuclear with cross-sector thought-leaders.   Are Gen III+ and Gen IV nuclear reactors heading towards water?  Yes! Not necessarily as a coolant but potentially to radicalize the maritime industry.   With an ambition to decarbonize the maritime industry and use a nation’s surrounding waters to power onshore needs, nuclear te...

This is the first Bankable! podcast to showcase a university nuclear research laboratory, with an insightful conversation with Dr. Rusty Towell. Founded in 2015, Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing Lab part of Abilene Christian University, and sponsored by Natura Resources, NEXT Lab is said to be building the first advanced university research reactor. https://acu.edu/research/next-lab/ &nbsp...

This is the first Bankable! podcast to showcase the Ukrainian chapter of Women in Nuclear.  https://win-ukraine.org.ua/home/ , represented by: 🇺🇦 Margaryta Rayet, President of Women in Nuclear Ukraine 🇺🇦 Alona Zavorotnia, Engineer-Programmer at South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant; and 🇺🇦 Renata Iaresko, Founder & CEO of CommsTrue Agency. With up to 55% of Ukrainian electricity needs reporte...

This is the first Bankable! podcast to showcase a national laboratory. We meet Shannon Bragg-Sitton https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-bragg-sitton/ at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in the U.S.A  https://inl.gov /. Why the interest? Our guest explains how the INL, amongst others: offers an unbiased view on Technology Readiness Level of new nuclear reactor technology; demonstrates how...

This is the first Bankable! podcast to showcase nuclear fusion, released on the same date as the UK’s Industrial Strategy announcement which, “puts fusion energy at the heart of driving innovation, economic growth and energy security.” https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fusion-energy-powers-uks-industrial-strategy   Why the interest? The International Atomic Energy Agency, describes fusion as...

This is the first Bankable! podcast to showcase AI Infrastructure. Also referred to as an AI Stack, it is a collective noun for the hardware and software needed to create and run Artificial Intelligence applications. An example of hardware is the graphics or tensor processing chip, the GPU or TPU, with a cloud provider such as a hyperscaler being an example of software. A data center houses t...

This is the first Bankable! podcast to showcase a use for new nuclear. Today, we meet a technology integrator aiming to produce sustainable fuels for hard-to-decarbonize industries, including aviation and maritime.  Why the interest? Well, in addition to the International Civil Aviation Organization’s global aspirational to reduce CO2 emissions in international aviation by 5 per cent by...

This is the inaugural episode in the Bankable! podcast.  We meet a technology company decarbonizing the global chemicals industry by processing used plastic into circular chemicals.  Why the interest? According to the International Energy Agency, the chemical sector is the largest industrial energy consumer and the third largest industry subsector of direct CO2 emissions. It is esti...

The podcast which showcases companies and individuals securing financing solutions to enable Decarbonization, AI Infrastructure and Energy Security. Developed and produced by Fresco CleanTech Solutions, the financial consultancy, each episode features an innovator succinctly explaining why they, their business or technology warrants capital from development to equity and long-term debt. Bankable!...