Hundreds To Arrive In London For 3-Day World Nuclear Association Symposium Wednesday

Hundreds of people will gather in London on Wednesday for the three-day conference of the World Nuclear Association, which will be dedicated to the future of nuclear power.

LONDON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 05th September, 2018) Hundreds of people will gather in London on Wednesday for the three-day conference of the World Nuclear Association, which will be dedicated to the future of nuclear power.

The event will be attended by representatives of multiple sectors of the nuclear industry, from fuel enrichment to transport and reactor construction, from over 30 nations.

The symposium will address key issues facing the nuclear industry, with environmental concerns and nuclear energy's public image set to be the key points of debate.

The conference will be featured by a high-level panel discussion, including Michael Bluck, the director of the Centre for Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College London, and Mikhail Chudakov, the deputy director general and head of the Department of Nuclear Energy of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which will be held on Friday.

The event will be carried out amid sporadic protests across the United Kingdom with both the safety and environmental sustainability of nuclear power prompting concern of the general public.

On Saturday, activists from the Highlands Against Nuclear Transport group and the Cromarty Peace Group campaigners held a protest at a train station in the Scottish city of Inverness over transportation of radioactive waste through the city to the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing facility.

In a similar case on August 27, hundreds of protesters gathered at the National Assembly for Wales to rally against the authorities' plans to dump dredged mud from Somerset's Hinkley Point C nuclear power site into Cardiff Bay.

Although the Hinkley Point C site is not yet operational, campaigners fear the mud may be contaminated by radioactive waste from sites A and B, something that the EDF Energy, the sites' owner, has consistently ruled out. Protesters insist that their fears are well-founded, believing that tests on potential mud contamination, which have already been carried out, are insufficiently conclusive.