Platts 5th Annual European Nuclear Power conference will now take place at the Millennium Hotel London Mayfair.

Fears surrounding security of supply, fossil fuel price volatility and increasingly tighter climate change goals at the international level are fuelling the resurgence in nuclear power globally. In Europe, it is widely predicted that demand will outstrip supply long-term if the regions’ ageing infrastructure remains neglected. The ability to create a stable and significant clean baseload has firmly placed nuclear power back on the table for policy makers and utilities alike.

What about uranium supplies? How long will they last?
How can you call nuclear power clean when it is creating huge amounts of highly radioactive waste?

If the industry is to fulfil its potential and seize a larger share of the European energy mix — many challenges need to be addressed. The industry’s capacity to build and develop a competitive supply chain infrastructure and workforce as well as achieving financial value and public support are paramount to its momentum. Doubts surrounding policy direction and carbon price continue to affect long term planning for the industry.

For carbon price read government subsidy. They cannot build new nuclear power stations without subsidies, either from individual governments or from the EU.

Building on the success of previous years, Platts 5th Annual European Nuclear Power: Prices, Policy and Projects conference will continue to assemble and showcase those organisations which are leading Europe’s nuclear revival and those supporting it. Leading operators, project developers, policy makers, observers and financiers will be brought together to debate the challenges faced from policy to finance, discuss and review nuclear projects in their various stages and look to provide attendees with a practical overview of the industry now and moving forward.

Platts 5th Annual European Nuclear Power: Prices, Policy and Projects will continue to:

•Attract over 200 leading industry professionals from 117 different companies and 23 countries
•25+ industry leading speakers from Europe’s leading utilities, project developers, technology providers, policy makers, regulators, financiers, NGO’s and observers
•Provide an unrivalled market overview from utility plans to project challenges.
•Present the latest in new build case studies
•Offer excellent networking opportunities

This year will explore:

•Industry leading perspectives: From vision to implementation
•Delivering a low carbon energy mix and nuclear's role
•European power mix: Understanding the current and preparing for the future regulatory environment
•European and international nuclear power plant case studies: Lessons learnt and challenges remaining
•Creating an adequate, competitive and value driven financial framework for European nuclear new build
•Developing Europe's nuclear value chain: Cost management, risk allocation and skills development
•Public education and awareness: Justifying new nuclear
•Reinvigorating the academic supply chain and reversing the trend
•Carbon, cost and consequences: The carbon price and its impact and importance to the nuclear momentum

2010’s speaker faculty includes:
•Daniel Roderick, Senior Vice President, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
•Jörn-Erik Mantz, Vice President Nuclear New Build, RWE Power; Member of Board, Horizon Nuclear Power
•Philippe Herve Du Penhoat, Deputy Head of Financial Strategy, EDF
•Francesco de Falco, Chief Executive Officer, Sviluppo Nucleare Italia
•Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan, UK Select Committee Science and Technology, Vice-Chair, All Party Group Energy Studies and Chair, Nuclear Industry Association
•Mark Higson, Chief Executive Officer, Office for Nuclear Development, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), UK
•Dr. Michael Micklinghoff, Chairman, Cordel Group (Cooperation in Reactor Design Evaluation and Licensing), World Nuclear Association and Senior Vice President, New Nuclear Development/Projects, E.ON Kernkraft
•Yves Crommelynck, Director Development and Project Support, Nuclear Activities Division, GDF Suez
•Greg Evans, Head of Nuclear, Centrica
•Humberto Werdine, Director, New Nuclear Power Plants, Iberdrola Engineering and Construction
•Jorma Kotro, Senior Advisor, Fortum Nuclear Services
•Kaija Kainurinne, Head of Brussels Office, Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO)
•Ali Etemad, Executive Vice President, Vattenfall Nuclear Fuel
•Dr. Rita Bowser, Managing Director - UK AP1000 Delivery Team, Westinghouse
•Jimmy Wang, Vice General Manager, China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., (A CGNPC subsidiary)
•Luc Resteigne, Executive Vice President Nuclear, Tractebel
•Colette Lewiner, Global Energy, Utilities and Chemicals Leader, Capgemini
•Didier Bienfait, Vice President, Nuclear Business, Bureau Veritas
•Kathie Child-Villiers. Managing Director, Power and Utilities, Resources and Energy Group, HSBC
•Mark C. Lewis, Managing Director, Commodities Research, Global Carbon Markets, Deutsche Bank
•Darryl Brown, Partner, Gowlings
•Peter Faross, Director. Nuclear Energy, DG TREN, European Commission
•Andrii Gritsevskyi, Energy Systems Analyst, Planning and Economic Studies Section, Department of Nuclear Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency
•Kevin Allars, Director for Nuclear New Build Generic Design Assessment, HSE
•François Nguyen, Senior Policy Advisor - Electricity Markets, International Energy Agency (IEA)
•Jean-Claude Gauthier, Director, ENELA
•Dr. Paul Dorfman, Nuclear Consultation Group and Senior Research Fellow, University of Warwick
•Mark Johnston, Coordinator, Power Plant CO2 Standards, European Policy Office, WWF

Past delegates included:

•ABB Ltd
•L’Usine Nouvelle
•Accenture GmbH
•Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
•Accord Nuclear Resources Management LLP
•Lehman Brothers
•AEOI
•LEO LT
•AF Colenco Ltd
•Les Echos
•ALSTOM Power GPS
•Mace Ltd
•ANSTO
•Macquarie Securities
•AREVA Group
•Mammoet Global B.V.
•ARMz Uranium Holding Co.
•Mammoet USA Inc
•Ashurst LLP
•Marsh S.A.
•ATB Riva Calzoni S.p.A.
•McCloskey's Nuclear Business
•ATMEA
•McGraw Hill Companies
•Atomstroyexport JSC
•McKinsey & Company Inc.
•Babcock International Group
•Mikhailov & Partners Strategic Communication Management
•BAE Systems
•Mirion Technologies - RMS Division
•Barclays Capital
•Mitsubishi Corporation UK PLC
•Bechtel Power Corp
•Montel Powernews
•BKW FMB Energy Ltd
•Morgan Stanley
•Bloomberg
•National Skills Academy for Nuclear
•BNP Paribas
•Naturagas Energia Comercializadora, S.A.U.
•BNS Nuclear Services Ltd
•New Energy Finance
•BP Alternative Energy
•NOK
•British Energy Group
•Norwest Holst Ltd
•Bureau Veritas
•Nuclear Energy International
•Business and Economics
•Nuclear Engineering International
•BusinessWeek
•NuclearMarket
•Buzulukskiy Branch SwLL Orenburgskaya Oil Company
•OECD / NEA
•C.E.A.
•OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
•Calyon
•OSC-American Embassy
•Capgemini
•Paul C. Rizzo Associates inc
•CB&I
•PennWell Global Energy Group
•CEA / International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) / The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)
•PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA
•CEA Centre de Saclay
•PHOTONIS
•CEREC
•Platts
•CEZ a.s.
•Polartest Oy

•CH2M Hill

•Press Trust of India (Premier News Agency)

•Chubu Electric Company Inc

•Primier Project Limited

•CM - CIC Securities, European Securities Network (ESN)

•Project Finance International

•Cogent Sector Skills Council

•Purple Mountain Ventures, Inc.

•Coyne et Bellier

•RBC Capital Markets

•Dow Jones Newswires

•Rhodia Energy Services

•E.C.L.

•Rio Tinto Uranium

•E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH

•Roquette

•EDF Energy

•RWE Power AG.

•Edison SpA

•Saipem S.p.A.

•EGL - Elektrizitätsgesellschaft Laufenburg AG

•Salzgitter Mannesmann Stainless Tubes GmbH

•Electrabel

•Shaw Group

•Elster-Instromet NV

•Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd

•Embassy of France

•Shell Gas & Power International B.V.

•Emerson Process Management

•Siemens AG

•ENBW Kernkraft GmbH

•Siempelkamp Nukleartechnik GmbH

•Enel - Slovenskie Electrarne

•Smith Institute

•Energy Industries Council

•Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking

•Energy Observer Magazine

•Society of Energy Professionals

•ENI SPA

•Solvay S.A.

•Enrichment Technology Co

•SPE SA

•EON France SAS

•Standard & Poor's

•EON UK

•Star Capital Partners Limited

•EPC

•Stratinvestru

•Equipos Nucleares

•Swiss Nuclear Forum

•Ernst & Young Business Advisory

•System Consulting Zrt

•European Commission

•Tashkent State Technical University

•European Energy Review

•Técnicas Reunidas, S.A.

•Exelon Generation

•Telcabo Ltd

•Fennovoima

•The Burgundy Nuclear Partnership (NBP)

•First Reserve International Limited

•The IET

•Fluor Nuclear Power

•The Japan Steel Works

•Fortum Corporation

•The Shaw Group

•French Trade Commission

•The Society of Energy Professionals

•GDF Suez

•Thermo Fisher Scientific

•GE Energy Products France SNC

•Thomson Reuters

•GE Hitachi

•TOTAL

•Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services GmbH

•Tractebel Engineering

•GMP Capital Management B. Limited

•TVEL Corporation

•Greenpeace

•UBS

•Grupo Isolux Corsãn

•UK Monitor

•Hayward Tyler Ltd

•UKAEA

•Helsingin Sanomat

•United Kingdom Atomic Energy Agency (UKAEA)

•Hungarian Energy Office

•University of Greenwich

•Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción

•University of Massachusetts Lowell

•IBM

•Urenco Enrichment Company Ltd

•IEA

•URS

•Institution of Mechanical Engineers

•US Dept of Energy (NE-45)

•Intergraph France

•Ux Consulting Company LLC

•International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

•VAE (Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant)

•Invensys Process System

•Valtimet

•ITER Organization

•Vattenfall

•JAL Consulting

•Ventyx

•Japan Steel Works

•Vinci Construction Grands Projets

•JRC - European Commission

•VINCI CONSTRUCTION GRANDS SPROJETS

•Kazatomprom

•Westinghouse

•KCI Publishing

•World Nuclear Association

•Worley Parsons Europe Energy Svcs Ltd

For more information about the conference, contact:
Stacey Knox
Tel: +44-20-7176-6226
stacey_knox@platts.com