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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Education and training to support Canadian nuclear workforce development
Along with several other nations, Canada has committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. Part of this plan is tripling nuclear generating capacity. As of 2025, the country has four operating nuclear generating stations with a total of 17 reactors, 16 of which are in the province of Ontario. The Independent Electricity System Operator has recommended that an additional 17,800 MWe of nuclear power be added to Ontario’s grid.
UWC 2022 speaker
Xcel Energy
Patrick Burke is Nuclear Vice President Strategy. Responsible for developing the strategy and business plans for the Nuclear Business Unit of Xcel Energy. This includes leading the Innovation, Government and Policy, Transformation, Nuclear Services and used fuel strategies.
He previously held the Nuclear Vice President, Engineering and Technical Services position for Xcel Energy responsible for fleet engineering, capital projects, refueling outages, new fuels and used fuels storage functions.
Prior to that he served as the Vice President Capital Projects leading the fleet capital projects department as well as dry fuels storage and the corporate outage departments.
Patrick received his bachelor science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds a BWR Senior Reactor Operator certification, and has been a registered professional engineering in the state of Minnesota, and a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.
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