First Place : Glacier Melt Mitigation Services

Adnan Wisudhaputra, Ajit Bastola, Bianca Carpinelli, Dinara Ermakova, Jake Littlepage, Sara Ferry, Sree Harsha Bandaru, Viljami Yli-Hemminki

Glacial Melt Mitigation Services (GMMS) is a consulting company that helps national governments, NGOs, and nuclear vendors harness nuclear power to avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate-change induced glacial melt. There are many geoengineering proposals to prevent the melting of ice sheets and glaciers, but these technologies require massive amounts of energy. Advanced nuclear power is the cleanest and most cost-effective choice to meet these energy needs. GMMS works to identify the areas across the globe that are most at-risk from glacial melt, form coalitions across the private and public sectors to act, and advise on relevant matters of international climate and marine policy. We then leverage a deep network of nuclear and infrastructural vendors to design site-specific nuclear-powered glacial melt mitigation solutions.

Oko

Albert Houghton, Hareth AlMaskari, Jakub Damian, Ruaridh Macdonald

Nuclear new builds have major cost overruns due to construction errors during concrete pouring and rebar placement. We propose using drones to help prevent this by automatically detecting errors in rebar placement, analyse how the concrete cures and detect cracks in it. We will be using off the shelf drones and sensors with our own software to carry out analysis in real time. The project would be targeted towards current and future new builds with the aim of establishing a significant market share once licensed.

GreenHeat

Anna Benarosch, Christos Sarafidis, Pedro Moreno Martinez

Nuclear power plants waste heat by discharging warm water into the environment. Greenheat will reuse this heat for warming greenhouses dedicated to food production. This would reduce thermal pollution and reduce the carbon footprint of vegetables in a cost-efficient way. It would also improve the public perception of the nuclear industry.

0Carbon

Alexia Mercier, Igor Gawron, Pierre-Clement Simon, Victor Richet

We are creating a free educational smartphone application that breaks down the complex information about the impacts of different energy mix scenarios in the form of a game. The idea is to put the player (10-16 years old, low or high interest in environment) in the position to manage a fleet of plants with various technologies, and to enable them to see the long term environmental effects of their choices. We would thus rely on educators mainly to reach our target, and use different levels within the app to adapt the content to the different age groups addressed. Our plan is to first develop a detailed specification, within a timescale of 4 months, then have a milestone 2 months later for the app prototype (graphics and basic mechanism), then add an extra 2 months for beta- testing and finally 1 month for feature addition before first release.

SubR

Azusa Konno, Charlyne Smith, Hadiza Mohammed, Kiira Kalmi

SubR Technologies is an ocean-based solution to aid countries affected by natural disasters by supplying power via civil nuclear submarines. With over 70% of the world’s population living near the coastline, the flexibility and easy access provided by SubR is both optimal and pragmatic. Our mission statement is to develop world class submarines to provide global access to electricity for a brighter future.

Talk Energy

Rodrigo de Oliveira, Yana Podolskaya, Shono Fujiyama

We are a data aggregation and open media platform ‘TalkEnergy’. In partnership with our think tank, we publish articles to support the energy debate in an unbiased and accessible way. We strongly believe that we can engage the public in a meaningful discussion on the impacts of energy production to enable better decision-making in advocating for the environment. We want society to TalkEnergy and allow nuclear energy to talk for itself. Join us in this effort!

WIISE4.0

Shirley Eseigbe, Vighnesh Candassamy Santhanamani

The goal of this project is to provide an efficient and long-lasting solution to solve the issues that can lead to delay licensing and completion of nuclear construction projects through a proposed platform-WIISE4.0 (Wisdom in Integrated Stakeholder Engagement, the heart of factory 4.0). WIISE4.0 is an optimised digital platform with the integration of big data and machine learning, phase-gate-model, and system engineering approach. This platform will aid real- time monitoring and visualisation of the project progress and allows the prediction/quantification of risks. It will offer the opportunity to decrease time and cost overruns, increase productivity and quality by encouraging integration of all stakeholders that are involved within the construction project.