Context

Zenon Research is a non-profit organisation that uses a scientific approach to analysing trends in climate solutions and identifying promising technologies that will reduce emissions and remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Zenon’s proposition is twofold:

• A holistic vision: To develop, a technology needs an economic model and a market. It is integrated into an ecosystem, which is itself in constant motion.

• An efficiency-driven approach: Efficiency and the ability to scale quickly are our focus for technology. Climate solutions must maximise the amount of greenhouse gases avoided or removed while minimising negative externalities.

The field of energy/climate tech is booming. It is difficult for professionals wishing to understand its challenges to keep pace with technological advances and assess their medium-term potential.

Zenon provides the keys to understanding these technologies to enable a community of decision-makers, companies, investors and entrepreneurs to seize opportunities and accelerate the emergence of technologies that will have a significant impact in the fight against global warming.

Zenon develops and leads a community of committed professionals who want to understand the climate technology ecosystem and create connections that allow them to have the maximum impact to accelerate the low-carbon transition.

Small Modular Reactors

The session organised by Zenon focused on the subject of reviving nuclear energy as a low-carbon and controllable energy source.

More specifically, after an introduction by Greg de Temmerman in order to highlight the context and role of nuclear power in the energy transition, Pierre Gavoille from the French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) presented the specificities and prospects for the deployment of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) technologies.

Will the SMRs make it possible to revive nuclear power?