Business View-Oct 2023

110 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 10 kind of world challenge that we talked about with climate change. On the waste side of things, we look at it as the nuclear industry has a big advantage over a lot of competing technologies.” “It’s a closed-loop system, we account for the waste through its lifecycle unlike other sectors and industries” he summarizes. “We know where everything comes from, but conversely, when we decommission and deal with our waste, everything is categorized, segregated, and put into containers. We have full control and traceability on all that waste. Nothing goes out in a smokestack; nothing gets thrown into a landfill. We know what and where everything is,” Jolly adds. This is, he stresses, an enormous advantage of nuclear. “We’ve demonstrated, as an industry, how to operate safely for decades now.” “Given the safety culture in the nuclear industry, personal and worker safety in operating plants is taken with high regard and as such performance concerning safety incidents is better than other industries.” He also stresses that as a company policy, Hatch takes safety very seriously, applying a defense in depth approach with redundancies built into systems to reliably ensure the utmost safety. “Hatching” a sustainability energy mix To better understand the evolution of the company, Jolly draws attention to its founder, Dr. Gerry Hatch, who created it back in 1955. “Dr. Gerry Hatch was a remarkable person,” he says. “He started the company with some like- minded individuals, four or five people in the early days. It was an employee-owned company and still is an employee-owned company today, with 10,000 people worldwide in just the 68 years that you mentioned.” The company was born out of the recognition that