One of the nuclear industry’s most experienced executives has postponed retirement from a 45-year-long career for a rare challenge – to deliver a privately backed new build project. As CEO of Horizon Nuclear Power – the UK subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi – Duncan Hawthorne aims to demonstrate that such a project is able not only to attract investors, but that it will be delivered on time and to budget. Horizon plans to deploy the UK ABWR (Advanced Boiling Water Reactor) at two sites – Wylfa Newydd, which is on the Isle of Anglesey, and Oldbury-on-Severn, in South Gloucestershire.
World Nuclear News 29th June 2016 read more »