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ISSN 0305-876x USPS# 017-058 was born in the 60’s, so “the nuclear option” doesn’t harken memories of clean, sustainable power; rather walking by the 118 East 25th Street, signage pointing to a nuclear fallout shelter, much like a

New York, NY 10010 fre drill. But nuclear and all that it entails – with modern, tel: (212) 477-6700; fax: (212) 254-6271

I compact reactor units and clear potential to effectively feed www.OEDigital.com clean energy to a power-hungry world. This month Alisa Reiner takes a

EDITORIAL deep dive into Floating Nuclear, a new and fast-emerging offshore energy

GREGORY R. TRAUTHWEIN

President | Editor & Publisher frontier. For decades, foating nuclear power occupied a niche position trauthwein@offshore-engineer.com in the energy debate – technically feasible, strategically intriguing, but

AMIR GARANOVIC commercially marginal. Today, however, combined pressures of decar-

Managing Editor garanovic@offshore-engineer.com bonization, energy security, land constraints, rising electricity demand and water scarcity are making foating nuclear power a more serious

Contributors

BARRY PARKER, New York proposition for policymakers, utilities, and infrastructure. In evaluating

WENDY LAURSEN, Australia

PHILIP LEWIS, U.K.

potential markets, the strongest case emerges in remote coastal regions

JOSEFINE SPIRO, Norway and small island developing states where the challenge is not only decar-

PRODUCTION | GRAPHIC DESIGN bonization, it is the high cost of imported fuel, the vulnerability of sup-

NICOLE VENTIMIGLIA nicole@marinelink.com ply chains, and the diffculty of scaling grid infrastructure.

SALES

Nuclear is the emerging technical topic impacting multiple energy

GARY LEWIS fronts, but geopolitical confict … wars … are the lingering and big- (516) 441-7258 | lewis@offshore-engineer.com ger energy sector driver. While peace in the Middle East is never a sure

TERRY BREESE, VP Sales +1 (561) 732-1185 | breese@marinelink.com thing, it appears that the U.S./Israel war with Iran could be drawing

JOHN CAGNI down after fast start earlier this year, and now is the time to take a look cagni@marinelink.com | +1 631-472-2715 at the immediate and longer term, deeper impacts of this confict and

FRANK COVELLA

Russia’s lingering 4+ year war with Ukraine have on energy production, covella@marinelink.com | +1 561-732-1659 transport and consumption. Throughout this edition – from OSVs to

MIKE KOZLOWSKI

Rigs to Exploration & Production – OE’s contributing markets experts kozlowski@marinelink.com | +1 561-733-2477 weigh in on the pace and direction of key markets as political focus shifts

STEFY PICIOTTI THOMPSON, Europe

Phone:+33 (0) 6.21.23.67.02 | from war to commerce.

Thompson@offshore-engineer.com

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