about a sentient hill. “It was a sad hill when it was raining; then a flower grew out of its head and it became happy, and the sun came out.” He showed the film to Veelo, who showed it to his two-year-old daughter. “Diederik came back a couple of days later with a video of his little girl watching my film, laughing out loud and saying ‘Play it again, play it again!’ And that small moment for me was like, right, I have to keep on doing this.”

A family affair

That internship took place in 2009. Today, Lammers is still at Ambassadors (with only a short break in 2012 when he did a six-month stint at Buck Design in Los Angeles), which begs the question: what makes it soMitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) was awarded a certificate of compliance for meeting the European Utility Requirements (EUR) for its 1,700-MW Generation III+ EU-Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor (APWR).

The EU-APWR is the first reactor of Japanese design to have successfully demonstrated compliance to the EUR, which is a set of approximately 5,000 requirements, organized into 20 chapters, compiled by 16 European nuclear-reliant power providers. The design is conceptually based on the 1,538-MW 4-loop plant design scheduled for construction in Japan, with modifications to comply with European regulations and customer agreements. Assessment of MHI’s application began on October 2012. Two years later, the EUR panel concluded that the EU-APWR design is acceptable to the European market in terms of safety, operating performance and other criteria.

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