Turns out nuclear is friendlier than you'd think

About this episode

Miranda Kirschel MBE never planned a career in nuclear. She wanted to be a dancer. After studying politics and French almost by accident, she temped her way into what's now the Nuclear Industry Association, and ended up spending the next few decades in an industry she'd barely heard of growing up in Cyprus. In this episode she sits down with us to talk about how she fell into nuclear, why she co-founded Women in Nuclear UK, and what it took to start shifting the dial on women in the sector. She's honest about the hard parts too, moving to Cumbria, losing her identity as a new mum, and learning how to work again. We also get into her current mission as Programme Director at ISH, the Industrial Solutions Hub. Plans have just been approved for the Enterprise Campus at Cleator Moor, and Miranda explains what that means for West Cumbria: the clusters, the jobs, the deprivation she wants to help rebalance, and the world-leading innovation already happening here that almost nobody knows about. Plus, why she reckons nuclear is the friendliest industry you'll ever come across. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Follow the Chatterjack PodcastInstagram → / chatterjackpod Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...TikTok → / chatterjackpod LinkedIn → / chatterjack-podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Keep up with MirandaLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/miranda-kirschel-mbe-a0776614/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Connect with the crewLindsay → / lindsay-gray-54638950 Tom → / tom-simmons-134b6121b ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Powered by Natterjack Marketing → https://www.natterjackmarketing.co.uk