As a result of travel restrictions introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nuclear Risk Insurers (NRI) has been unable to carry out traditional physical surveys of nuclear power plants (NPPs) for most of 2020 and has instead been conducting surveys remotely. NRI’s Engineering Surveyors have remotely surveyed three NPPs this year: Koeberg, near Cape […]
Over the past year, Nuclear Risk Insurers (NRI) has partnered with carbon-analytics company, Alectro, to make big steps towards improving our environmental responsibility. The result of this is that we are delighted to announce that in pursuit of our own NRI net zero initiatives, we are now operating as a carbon neutral organisation. We have […]
We are convening a new, six-monthly webinar series for our sector, entitled ‘Frontiers In Nuclear Insurance’. The inaugural session will be on ‘Insurance considerations for the deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs)’. Missed the webinar? If you’d like a copy of the slides or watch a recording of the session, please email eithne.stanton@nuclear-risk.com. […]
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Mark Popplewell was elected in 2019 to serve as one of three nuclear insurance Pool Manager experts to the Nuclear Law Committee (NLC), an inter-government group supported by the office of Legal Counsel of the Nuclear Energy Association (NEA) – a standing technical committee of the OECD. Mark, along with the other two Pool Managers, […]
NRI was honoured to attend China Nuclear Insurance Pool (CNIP) 20th Anniversary Summit on the 7th November 2019. The Summit was opened by Mr Yuan Linjiang, Chairman of CNIP with senior guest speakers from the Environmental Protection Committee, Nuclear Safety Administration, Nuclear Emergency Office, CNNC and GNC, as well as CNIP’s General Secretary, Dr Zuo […]
In 2019, NRI led an international insurance survey at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine. Val Martell and Paul Galbraith participated in a team with Věra Šídlová from the Czech Nuclear Insurance Pool, and were supported by Ukrainian Nuclear Insurance Pool manager Oleksandr Babenko and consultant Artem Zakharov. […]
NRI attended the 2019 Engineers’ Training Seminar in Toulouse, France, in May, hosted by the French Pool, which focused on the topics of cyber security and safety culture. Noting that Airbus are located in Toulouse, and the significance of safety culture in the aeronautics industry, the group took the opportunity to visit the Airbus production […]
Over the last few years, NRI has developed a world-class catastrophe claims process that provides confidence that people, society and businesses are protected in the extremely rare event of a major nuclear incident. Our claims solution is designed to align with the policyholders’ emergency response procedures to quickly compensate those with valid claims. […]
NRI enhanced its global partnerships in 2019 by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the China Nuclear Insurance Pool to work together on joint projects in different areas of the business. We look forward to increased collaboration with the Chinese pool going forward. […]