Nuclear Business Platform

11/10/2026

“We can import the technology, but we cannot outsource the national responsibility.”

Dr. Roswita H Hamunyela — Associate Dean of the School of Applied Nuclear Science at the University of Namibia — put it best in our latest NBP Hot Seat with Ibrahim Ababou

🇳🇦 is one of the world’s largest uranium producers. But as the country evaluates nuclear energy for its own power mix, the real work isn’t digging ore from the ground. It’s building the people, institutions and knowledge to govern, regulate and operate a nuclear programme — long before the first reactor is ever considered.

In this 13-minute conversation with Ibrahim Ababou, Dr. Hamunyela unpacks:

→ Why human resource development sits at the heart of nuclear readiness
→ The multidisciplinary skills needed beyond nuclear engineers — from reactor physics to nuclear law
→ How governments, universities, industry and international partners can collaborate without creating dependency
→ The case for African regional centres of excellence
→ What success for Namibia’s nuclear workforce looks like by 2030

A must-watch for every African nation thinking about its nuclear future — and every international partner serious about long-term engagement with the continent.

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/6PlOQUN5K8A?si=oml82P7Li1NItwnz

This conversation sets the stage for Africa Nuclear Business Platform 2027 — 6-7 April 2027, Pretoria, hosted by the Department of Electricity and Energy SA, South Africa, under the theme “The African Blueprint: Scaling Proven Nuclear Power Across the Continent.”

11/10/2026

Nuclear Energy in ASEAN: Regional Developments and Vietnam's Nuclear Roadmap

What is happening across Southeast Asia's nuclear energy landscape — and what should international industry stakeholders be paying attention to?

Join Nuclear Business Platform and the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM) for a one-hour webinar examining nuclear energy developments across 🇸🇬 Singapore, 🇲🇾 Malaysia, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇵🇭 Philippines and 🇹🇭 Thailand, followed by a dedicated briefing on 🇻🇳 Vietnam's nuclear programme.

Featuring:

▪️ Mr. Nguyen An Trung, Director, Department of International Cooperation, VINATOM — Vietnam's nuclear energy programme
▪️ Zaf Coelho, Global Managing Director, Nuclear Business Platform — Regional developments across ASEAN

The session will provide an overview of national priorities, programme developments and the evolving regional landscape for organisations interested in nuclear energy in Southeast Asia.

Date: Thursday, 22 October 2026
Time: 4:00 PM Hanoi time | 9:00 AM GMT
Format: Online via Zoom
Registration: Free

Whether you are involved in nuclear technology, engineering, project development, consultancy or business development, join us for an informative regional briefing.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GxLrSsDBTXezBKhOd2YOOQ #/

11/10/2026

🌏 Forget national capacity targets — the map that actually predicts Southeast Asia's nuclear market is where electricity gets consumed in large, continuous quantities.

🇮🇩 Indonesia's 500 MW target by 2034 isn't aimed at population centres — it's aimed at Sumatra and Kalimantan's nickel, bauxite, and aluminium processing zones, where captive coal plants already have the land, the grid connection, and a contracted industrial customer.

🇹🇭 Thailand's two 300 MW units, 🇻🇳 Vietnam's data-centre-driven demand — the pattern repeats. Archipelagic geography means fragmented grids can't absorb large generating units, so reactor sizing here is set by grid engineering, not energy policy.

For suppliers: the offtake conversation starts with a mining operator or data centre developer, not a state budget c*cle. Siting analysis, cogeneration revenue, and industrial PPAs are commercial capabilities that matter as much as reactor technology.

This demand grows on its own schedule — independent of government nuclear timelines — across a USD 208 billion regional buildout.

Read further 👉 https://www.nuclearbusiness-platform.com/media/insights/role-of-industrial-load-in-southeast-asia-emerging-nuclear

NBP's Asia Nuclear Business Platform (ANBP) runs 24-26 November in Hanoi — where these industrial offtake conversations are still forming.

Southeast Asia's nuclear reactor sizing is set by industrial load and grid geography, not national capacity targets. Indonesia's mining zones, Vietnam's data centres, and archipelagic grid constraints are driving a 50-300 MWe product market that grows independent of government timelines. NBP's ANBP,

11/10/2026

Every country building its first nuclear plant hits the same problem: enriched uranium fuel means dependency on whichever country supplies the enrichment, mainly Russia, the US, France, or China.

Canada's CANDU design solved that problem in the 1950s for a completely different reason, and it happens to be exactly what a newcomer nuclear market needs today. CANDU runs on natural, unenriched uranium using heavy water as moderator. No enrichment contract, no dependency on an enrichment-holding state, one less category of geopolitical risk in the country's energy security planning.

This isn't theoretical. 12 CANDU units have been sold and built outside Canada (South Korea, Romania, India, Pakistan, Argentina, China), and 25 are operating today across five countries. AtkinsRéalis's new Candu Monark design (1000 MWe) is now in regulatory review, and Candu Energy signed an MOU with Türkiye's TÜNAŞ in March 2026 to assess deployment there.

For any country evaluating its first reactor, the real diligence question isn't just financing or construction speed, it's which vendor removes the most future dependencies from the country's energy security position. CANDU's answer has thirty years of operating history behind it.

Read further 👉 https://www.nuclearbusiness-platform.com/media/insights/canada-candu-strategy

Canada's CANDU reactor design runs on natural, unenriched uranium, removing newcomer nuclear markets' dependency on enrichment-holding states like Russia, the US, France, or China. With 12 units sold abroad and 25 operating across five countries, plus a new MOU with Turkiye's TUNAS, CANDU's fuel c*c

08/10/2026

🚨 2026 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT 🚨

🇷🇺 𝐃𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧, Country Head (Vietnam) at Rosatom, joins the 11th Asia Nuclear Business Platform (ANBP 2026).

📅 24 – 26 November 2026
📍 Pullman Hanoi Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳
🏛️ Hosted by Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM)

Southeast Asia's nuclear ambitions are moving from policy to project ex*****on. Vietnam 🇻🇳 is restarting its nuclear programme, while Indonesia 🇮🇩, Malaysia 🇲🇾, the Philippines 🇵🇭, Thailand 🇹🇭 and Singapore 🇸🇬 advance their own roadmaps — together targeting over 20 GW of nuclear capacity across the region by 2050. ANBP 2026 brings together the policymakers, utilities, regulators and technology providers shaping this ASEAN nuclear decade.

Rosatom is the world's largest builder of nuclear power plants abroad, with 28 units currently under construction across nine countries, including Türkiye, Egypt, Bangladesh, India, China and Hungary. Its portfolio spans large VVER-1200 reactors, small modular reactors and the world's only operating floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, which has been supplying power and heat to Russia's Arctic since 2020. In March 2026, Vietnam and Russia signed an intergovernmental agreement for Rosatom to build one of Vietnam's first nuclear power plants. As Country Head for Vietnam, Mr. Raspopin offers a direct view of how this project is being prepared, and what localisation, workforce and supply chain opportunities may open up for Vietnamese and international partners.

Join 300+ senior leaders from across the global nuclear supply chain at Southeast Asia's leading and longest-running nuclear business platform.

📥 Download the full brochure and conference programme: nuclearbusiness-platform.com/asia/anbp/

08/10/2026

Most firms evaluate 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 country by country. A portfolio manager would sort it differently: by asset class.

Pool one is the core holding, light-water and SMR deployment across Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It behaves as one correlated portfolio: a 𝐔𝐒𝐃 𝟐𝟎𝟖 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 buildout where financing breakthroughs and workforce constraints are shared across all five markets at once.

Pool two is small and uncorrelated: advanced reactor licensing. Indonesia's BAPETEN approval of ThorCon's Site Evaluation Plan is the only live non-light-water regulatory process anywhere in the region. Different physics, different fuel c*cle, a much thinner competitor field.

The allocation call: most capital and BD effort belongs in the mainstream portfolio. But a small, early position in advanced reactor licensing is worth holding while the field stays uncrowded.

Read further 👉 https://www.nuclearbusiness-platform.com/media/insights/southeast-asia-nuclear-market-two-investment

NBP's Asia Nuclear Business Platform (ANBP) runs 𝟐𝟒-𝟐𝟔 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 in Hanoi, with both portfolios represented in the room.

Southeast Asia's nuclear market splits into two distinct investment pools: a correlated mainstream light-water and SMR portfolio across five countries, and a small, uncorrelated advanced reactor licensing position. NBP's ANBP, 24-26 November in Hanoi, brings both together in one room.

08/10/2026

🚨 2026 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT 🚨

🇻🇳 𝐍𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐞𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐢, Deputy Head, Department of Engineering Physics at Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), joins the 11th Asia Nuclear Business Platform (ANBP 2026).

📅 24 – 26 November 2026 📍 Pullman Hanoi Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳 🏛️ Hosted by Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM)

Southeast Asia's nuclear ambitions are moving from policy to project ex*****on. Vietnam 🇻🇳 is restarting its nuclear programme, while Indonesia 🇮🇩, Malaysia 🇲🇾, the Philippines 🇵🇭, Thailand 🇹🇭 and Singapore 🇸🇬 advance their own roadmaps — together targeting over 20 GW of nuclear capacity across the region by 2050. ANBP 2026 brings together the policymakers, utilities, regulators and technology providers shaping this ASEAN nuclear decade.

Hanoi University of Science and Technology is one of Vietnam's leading engineering universities and a key training ground for the country's nuclear engineers and scientists. With Vietnam restarting its nuclear power programme, building a skilled workforce is one of the most urgent tasks ahead, and universities like HUST sit at the heart of it. As Deputy Head of the Department of Engineering Physics, Mr. Thai offers valuable insight into how Vietnam is preparing the next generation of nuclear talent, and where international partners can support education, training and research collaboration.

Join 300+ senior leaders from across the global nuclear supply chain at Southeast Asia's leading and longest-running nuclear business platform.

📥 Download the full brochure and conference programme:nuclearbusiness-platform.com/asia/anbp/

08/10/2026

The West's SMR race against China and Russia has a second, quieter contest underneath it, and it's happening entirely inside South Korea.

Doosan Enerbility, Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co.,Ltd.&C, Samsung C&T Corporation&T, and DL E&C are each independently the manufacturing partner for a different major US SMR developer, Holtec/TerraPower, Westinghouse, NuScale, and X-energy respectively. A European consortium (KHNP-Samsung Heavy Industries-Seaborg) is routing through the same ecosystem too.

The problem: forging bays, welding crews, and shipyard slots are finite. When every serious Western vendor queues for the same handful of Korean firms, the pace of delivery stops being about reactor engineering and starts being about who secured capacity first.

That means the real due diligence question isn't which reactor design is strongest, it's which Korean industrial partner has this vendor actually secured, and how much of that partner's capacity is already spoken for.

Meanwhile China's Linglong One heads to commercial operation in H1 2026, and Rosatom's Build-Own-Operate model remains unmatched by any commercially funded Western developer. The West's ability to respond is bounded by Korean industrial capacity, not by EXIM, DFC, or European Industrial Alliance financing.

Read further 👉 https://www.nuclearbusiness-platform.com/media/insights/western-smr-business-into-asia

American and European SMR vendors are converging on the same handful of Korean industrial conglomerates (Doosan, Hyundai, Samsung, DL E&C) to actually build their reactors. That shared, finite manufacturing capacity, not financing or reactor design, may be the real constraint on how fast the Wes

06/10/2026

Vietnam is about to build nuclear reactors.

But here's what nobody's talking about:

They're not building a nuclear supply chain.

They're converting their oil rigs into one.

That's a cheat code most countries don't have.

READ OUR ANALYSIS 👉 https://www.nuclearbusiness-platform.com/media/insights/vietnam-nuclear-supply-chain

06/10/2026

🚨 2026 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT 🚨

🇻🇳 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐨, Head of Technical Department, Ninh Thuan Nuclear Power Project Management Board at Vietnam Electricity (EVN), joins the 11th Asia Nuclear Business Platform (ANBP 2026).

📅 24 – 26 November 2026
📍 Pullman Hanoi Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳
🏛️ Hosted by Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM)

Southeast Asia's nuclear ambitions are moving from policy to project ex*****on. Vietnam 🇻🇳 is restarting its nuclear programme, while Indonesia 🇮🇩, Malaysia 🇲🇾, the Philippines 🇵🇭, Thailand 🇹🇭 and Singapore 🇸🇬 advance their own roadmaps — together targeting over 20 GW of nuclear capacity across the region by 2050. ANBP 2026 brings together the policymakers, utilities, regulators and technology providers shaping this ASEAN nuclear decade.

Vietnam Electricity (EVN), the country's national power utility, has been entrusted by the Government as the investor for one of Vietnam's first two nuclear power plants. Its Nuclear Power Project Management Board is where the programme turns into engineering reality: site preparation, technical specifications and the requirements that vendors and suppliers will need to meet. As Head of the Technical Department, Mr. Mao offers a rare, hands-on view of how the project is being prepared, and what it means for international technology providers, EPCs and suppliers looking to take part.

Join 300+ senior leaders from across the global nuclear supply chain at Southeast Asia's leading and longest-running nuclear business platform.

📥 Download the full brochure and conference programme: 5nuclearbusiness-platform.com/asia/anbp/