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The World Nuclear Association |
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The World Nuclear Association is the global private-sector organization that seeks to promote the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear power as a sustainable energy resource for the coming centuries. Specifically, the WNA is concerned with nuclear power generation and all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, including mining, conversion, enrichment, fuel fabrication, plant manufacture, transport, and the safe disposition of spent fuel.
The WNA serves its Members by facilitating their interaction on technical, commercial and policy matters and by promoting wider public understanding of nuclear technology. This dual role can be stated as follows:
* To serve as the pre-eminent global forum and commercial meeting place for those engaged in providing the world's largest source of safe, economic and environmentally friendly energy; and
* To provide a respected information service on nuclear energy and to speak pro-actively on behalf of nuclear energy amongst policymakers, opinion leaders, the media and the public.
The essential role of the World Nuclear Association is to facilitate commercially valuable interaction among its Institutional Members. Ongoing WNA working groups, consisting of representatives of Institutional Members and supported by the London-based Secretariat, share information and develop analysis on a range of technical, trade and environmental matters. These subjects include: nuclear fuel production, industry economics, nuclear trade issues, radiological protection, ‘nuclear event’ definition, transport, waste management and decommissioning, sustainable development and climate change, security of the international nuclear fuel cycle, safe and sustainable uranium stewardship, global strategies on public education and public policy
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