The Rise of Civil Nuclear in Maritime

Two to three years ago the thought of nuclear in civil maritime was confined to left field thinkers and fantasy. Today nuclear is seen as holding huge promise due to its zero carbon emissions, favourable maintenance requirements, periods between refuelling measuring at worst case once every five years and at best full ship life, along with the potential to transit at high speeds whilst other fuels favour low speeds.

How do we get there from a start point of almost no civil nuclear-powered ships, very limited regulation, ports that need to understand and develop requirements and only one western Flag State currently able to accept them? Along with looking at the potential technologies this presentation will endeavour to address these aspects of nuclear in maritime.

Mark Tipping is a chartered engineer who has worked in maritime / offshore roles since 2002, he has over 25 years’ experience in novel maritime offshore projects. Notably the Prelude FLNG as LR’s engineering manager.

He was also instrumental in the implementation of risk-based inspection to floating assets under Classification regimes within LR, the adoption of remote systems including digital twins for Classification verification.

As Power to X Director, he is establishing LR as a nuclear player of note in the marine, offshore industries, building on LR’s experience of providing assurance to the UK’s nuclear submarine fleet. Mark has also recently joined the Board of NEMO as a Director complementing his primary role at LR.

17:30-18:00 - Tea and Coffee

18:00-18:50 - In person talk and live stream starts

18:05 to 18:50 - Lecture Starts

18:50 to 19:00 - Q & A

Welcome to our October NEIMME Lecture. NEIMME is the Royal Chartered membership organisation for Engineering, Science and Technology in the North.
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