2009 Summer Institute Faculty and Mentors Biographies

WNU SI 2009	Programme	Venue
Faculty	Fellows	Private Area

 

AL QARADAWI Ilham

Dr. Ilham Al-Qaradawi is currently associate professor of nuclear physics at Qatar University. She received her Ph.D. in Positron Physics from University of London, UK in 1991.

Since her return she has worked hard on establishing the positron technique at Qatar University and eventually built the first variable energy slow positron beam in the Middle East. She now runs an established positron lab. and organized and chaired an international conference on slow positron beams in 2005.

Dr. Ilham Al-Qaradawi has been awarded the Qatar University award for excellence in research for 2004 and was honored by the Arab World institute in Paris in 2005.

She is involved in many research projects and collaborations on local, regional and international levels.

She is a very enthusiastic physicist and a keen educator who is always working to raise the standards of science awareness and teaching particularly in physics. She initiated a year long celebration of the World Year of Physics in 2005 through a series of events and activities that involved schools and universities. She is the founder of the Qatar Physics Society; through which she regularly holds training workshops for physics teachers and other activities in an effort to spread physics knowledge and improve physics education.

 

 

BARRE Bertrand

Bertrand Barré is Scientific Advisor to the Chairperson of the AREVA group, and Professor Emeritus of nuclear engineering at the Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires, INSTN.

Born in December 1942 (the same month as CP1 !), B. Barré joined the French Atomic Energy commission, CEA, in 1967 and has been working ever since, both in France and abroad, for the development of Nuclear Power.

Alternating scientific and managerial positions, Mr Barré was notably Nuclear Attaché near the French Embassy in Washington (USA), Director of Engineering in TECHNICATOME (now AREVA-TA), Director of the Nuclear Reactor Directorate of the CEA and Vice-president in charge of R&D in COGEMA (now AREVA-NC).

Bertrand Barré is Past President of the European Nuclear Society (ENS) and of the International Nuclear Societies Council (INSC), and Chairman of the International Nuclear Energy Academy (INEA) . www.bertrandbarre.com

 

BERG Sig

Sigval (Sig) M. Berg has served in a number of senior executive positions in the nuclear industry.  Most recently, he was the Senior Vice President of Infrastructure Development and Training for UniStar Nuclear Energy (a joint venture of Constellation Energy and EDF) in Baltimore, Maryland.

Prior to that, Mr. Berg was an executive at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) in Atlanta, Georgia from 1994-2006.  As executive vice president, he was responsible for INPO’s Evaluation and Assistance cornerstones.  From 2002 to 2004 he served as managing director of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) in London, England. Additional responsibilities during his time at INPO included serving as executive vice president for the Accreditation cornerstone and the Administrative Division, executive director of the National Academy for Nuclear Training, director of the WANO–Atlanta Center and deputy director of the WANO-Coordinating Center in London, Mr. Berg was elected executive vice president of INPO in April 2000, senior vice president in March 1998, and vice president in February 1996.

Mr. Berg joined INPO in 1994 after three years with Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, Illinois where he served as site vice president, Braidwood Nuclear Station; technical superintendent, Dresden Nuclear Station; assistant to production superintendent, Dresden Nuclear Station; and nuclear administrator, office of the vice president, PWR operations. During this time he completed Executive Senior Reactor Operator Training (BWR).

A 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he served in the U.S. Navy until 1981 holding several positions in the Navy nuclear program, including the position of chief engineer of a nuclear-powered submarine. He also completed a master of divinity (MDIV) program at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio and served as a senior pastor with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). In November 1998, Mr. Berg completed Harvard Graduate School of Business’ Advanced Management Program.

 

 

BERNARD Patrice

Since February 2009, Patrice Bernard is Nuclear Counsellor at the Embassy of France in Russia.

His former position, since May 2008, was Director in charge of GNEP, at the French Atomic Energy Commission CEA/DRI.
The first part of Patrice Bernard’s career was dedicated to the industrial "francization" of the PWR technology. His activity was then extended to the fuel cycle, with particular responsibility for the development and industrial implementation of nuclear process control for the La Hague reprocessing plants, subsequently transferred for the Rokkasho-Mura plant in Japan.

From 1993 to 1997, he was in charge of the CEA Department of Waste Storage and Disposal. In 1998, as Director of the ‘1991 Law’ Program, he was responsible for directing all CEA research in this area and for reporting to the Public Authorities and the National Assessment Committee.
From 2001 to the start of 2005, CEA Director of Nuclear Development and Innovation, he had particular responsibility for the development of 4th generation nuclear energy systems (reactors and fuel cycle), and research into management of high activity long-life waste (1991 Bataille law).

He was Executive Deputy Director of AREVA NC Recycling Business Unit from April 2005 to April 2008.

He was the French representative in the IAEA international Expert Group for Multilateral Nuclear Approaches to the Fuel Cycle, created in 2004 by the Director General, Mr. ElBaradei.
Patrice Bernard is graduated from the French Ecole Centrale de Paris and has a PhD in Reactor Physics.

 

 

 

BISCONTI Ann

Ann Stouffer Bisconti is President of Bisconti Research, Inc., a public opinion and communications research company. She provides research and communications advice to many companies and organizations in the U.S. and abroad.

From 1983 until 1996, Dr. Bisconti was a vice president with Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), where she established one of the most comprehensive research programs ever undertaken by an industry on challenging social issues. Her company continues to conduct NEI’s public opinion and communications research under contract and serves many other clients in energy and other fields.

Dr. Bisconti attended Harvard University, McGill University, and The Union Institute, from which she received her Ph.D. in Social Science Research in 1977. She is listed in Who’s Who in America. Dr. Bisconti served two terms on the Board of Directors of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). She is the author of five books and many other publications.

 

 

BLIX Hans

Dr. Hans Blix was born in 1928 in Uppsala, Sweden.  He studied at the University of Uppsala; Columbia University, where he was also a research graduate; and at Cambridge University, where he received his Ph.D. In 1959, Dr. Blix became Doctor of Laws at the Stockholm University, and, in 1960, was appointed Associate Professor in International Law.
From 1963 to 1976, Dr. Blix served as Adviser on International Law in the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  In 1976, he became Under-Secretary of State, in charge of international development cooperation.  He was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in October 1978.
He served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency for four terms, from 1981 till 1997.
He is the Chairman of the Assembly of Contributors of the Chernobyl Shelter Fund since 1998.

Dr. Blix was appointed Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) for Iraq by the UN Secretary-General in January 2000. He took up his duties on 1 March 2000 and left the post at the end of June 2003, with the expiry of his third contract.

As of January 2004 Dr. Blix chairs the independent international Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC). Its Final Report “Weapons of Terror, Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms” was presented to the public on 1 June 2006.

Dr. Blix has several honorary doctorates and is a recipient of a number of decorations and awards.  He is a member of the Institut de Droit International and an honorary member of the American Society of International Law.  In November 2006, Dr. Blix was appointed President of the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA), a position he will hold for a three-year term.

Dr. Blix has written several books on subjects associated with international and constitutional law. He has further written many articles on questions relating to energy and to the problems of spread of nuclear weapons. In 1980, Dr. Blix was the leader of the Liberal Campaign Committee in connection with the referendum on the Swedish nuclear energy programme. He published the book, “Disarming Iraq” in March 2004.

Dr. Blix lives in Stockholm and is married to Eva Kettis, formerly ambassador in charge of Arctic and Antarctic issues in the Swedish Foreign Ministry. They have two sons.

 

BRADBURY David

Dr. David Bradbury is Managing Director of Bradtec Decon Technologies Ltd, a British company which develops technology for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities.  The company has worked under contract for many nuclear clients both internationally and in the UK including the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). It has undertaken development of decontamination technology both for operator radiation dose reduction and for decommissioning.  The company has developed, on behalf of EPRI, the EPRI DFD Chemical Decontamination Process for decommissioning of nuclear plants and components.

Dr Bradbury has been involved in volume reduction of radioactive wastes and developments for decontamination of materials and recycle for new uses in the nuclear industry.  He is joint inventor of the “LOMI” and “EPRI DFD” decontamination processes which have been applied at over fifty nuclear plants worldwide.  He has been involved in developing technology for the management of special radioactive wastes including graphite (including C-14 isotope separation technology) and Magnox wastes.  He is leader of the Work Package 5 (concerned with the recycling of radioactive graphite) for the European Programme CARBOWASTE.

He is chairman of the UK Nuclear Industry Association Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Working Group, and acts as a spokesman for the NIA on nuclear decommissioning matters.  He is author of 15 patents and over 50 publications relating to nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste management.

 

 

BUDNITZ Robert

Dr. Robert J. Budnitz is currently on the staff of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (University of California), where he works primarily on the safety and security of nuclear installations. Throughout his career, his work has focused on the safety of nuclear power reactors, with an emphasis on systems analysis and Probabilistic Safety Analysis, and a special concentration on assuring safety following large earthquakes. His work has also encompassed radioactive-waste management, and environmental effects of nuclear-power production. Since 1991, he has worked on many projects aimed at upgrading the safety of reactors designed in the former Soviet Union. He recently worked for two years (2002 - 2004) on the Yucca Mountain Project on a special "detail" assignment to the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. and then at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2004 - 2007) on nuclear safety.

Budnitz is a former Director of Research at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a former Associate Director for Energy & Environment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From 1981 to 2002, he had his own consulting practice in Berkeley, CA. He has served on many national and international review and safety committees, and chaired several of them. Dr. Budnitz holds a Ph.D. in physics (Harvard), and a B.A. in physics (Yale).

 

 

CARNINO Annick

Currently member of the Safety Board for Mohovce 3&4 safety improvements 2007-8.

At IAEA, Ms. Annick Carnino was Director of the Division of Nuclear Installation Safety responsible for managing and promoting safety in nuclear installations through development of safety documents, conducting safety assessments, collection and dissemination of information on safe operational practices, the nuclear safety convention and the provision of peer review safety services.

As Head of the Safety Standards and Co-ordination Section, Ms. Carnino’s activities were safety standards development, management of International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group. In 1990, Ms. Carnino participated in the IAEA International Chernobyl Project as task leader and in the design and operation safety review missions on Soviet designed reactors.

While at the Electricité de France’ s Direction Générale, Ms. Carnino’s worked on safety and security of EDF nuclear installations,PSA management, event investigations in the field, internal audits and inspections, development of safety culture and human factors. Previously, at the French Atomic Energy Commission, Ms. Carnino performed safety experiments on the Cabri reactor.

Ms. Carnino is a “Fellow” of the American Nuclear Society and was awarded the Tommy Thompson award for her “outstanding contributions in the areas of reliability design, analysis, human factors, probabilistic safety assessment and development of safety culture, as well as for her leadership in improving the safety of nuclear installations worldwide, especially in developing countries and in eastern Europe”. Ms. Carnino is author of a book entitled “Catastrophe?… Non merci!” (Paris,1989) also published in English under the title “Man and Risk” (New York,1990).

 

CARRE Frank

Frank Carré is an international expert in reactor physics and nuclear engineering.
Since he joined the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) in 1976, he contributed to studies on advanced nuclear systems such as light water reactors, fusion reactor blankets and space power reactors. After 1990 he successively managed Services in charge of Innovative Systems for power reactors, and Reactor and Fuel Cycle Physics within the Department of Reactor Studies.

From 1997 to 2000 he served as Assistant Director of the Strategy and Evaluation Division of CEA, in charge of the strategic planning of CEA’s civilian activities.

Since 2001, he returned to nuclear Research and Development as Program Director for Future Nuclear Energy Systems within the Nuclear Energy Division. In this responsibility, he contributed to shape and to manage national R&D programs on fast neutron reactors with advanced fuel cycles and high temperature reactors for the cogeneration of process heat and hydrogen.

In March 2007, he was appointed Deputy Director for Nuclear Development and Innovation within the Nuclear Energy Division of CEA. In this position he co-manages national programs on future nuclear systems and remains actively involved in collaborative programs on future nuclear energy systems both in Europe and the Generation IV International Forum.

Frank Carré is also assistant professor at the Ecole Polytechnique and professor at the National Institute for Nuclear Sciences and Techniques.

 

CHHEM Rethy

Mr Rethy K Chhem joined the IAEA in November 2008. He holds a MD from the University of Paris VI, a PhD in Education and a PhD in History from the University of Montreal. He was Professor of Radiology at the University of Sherbrooke (1988-1993), McGill University (1993-1998), National University of Sherbrooke (1998-2003) and University of Western Ontario (2003-2008).

He was Head of the Radiology Department at the London Health Science Centre and Chairman of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) from 2003 to 2008. He was also professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario where he still hold an appointment as Adjunct Research Professor in Anthropology.

Mr Chhem serves on the Medical Council of Canada and is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Mr Chhem published over a hundred articles and book chapters. He edited 8 books on radiology and medical imaging education. He is the Founding President of the Asia Pacific Association for PBL in Health Sciences and Founding President of the International Society for Scholarship of Medical Imaging Education.

Mr Chhem is currently Director of Human Health Division at the IAEA.

 

CHITUMBO Kaluba

Dr Chitumbo has BSc (1969) in Chemistry, Physics and Maths and PhD (1975) in Physical Chemistry, University of Uppsala, Sweden. He did Postgraduate Research at Queens University, Canada (1976) and several training courses at the IAEA in Nuclear Technology, Safeguards and Nuclear Control and Regulatory Systems.

Dr. Chitumbo is a consultant in Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Non-Proliferation issues and Safeguards, and he also does guest lecturing in these disciplines.  He is former Director in the IAEA, Department of Safeguards, responsible for implementation of Safeguards and negotiations with Member States in Asia (Japan, South Korea, North Korea (DPRK), Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, Myanmar, People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Small Quantity Protocol countries). He has extensive knowledge and working experience in Nuclear Technology and Safeguards (Enrichment, Fabrication Plants, Nuclear Power Plants, Reprocessing Plants, Research Reactors and Critical Assemblies and R&D activities), Non-Proliferation and Disarmament; gained during 24 years working in the Department of Safeguards, IAEA.  He has led teams in sensitive negotiations with member states in implementing their Nuclear Non–Proliferation obligations and assisting Member States in establishing Nuclear Material Control and Regulatory Systems. He was a Member of the IAEA Nuclear Power Support Group engaged in advising and assisting Member States in dealing with considerations to launch a peaceful nuclear programme. In 1995 he was Secretary to the Committee II at the NPT Review Conference, United Nations, New York.

Prior to joining the IAEA Dr. Chitumbo was the Head of Radioisotopes and Radioactive Minerals Research Centre in Zambia where he established Nuclear Analytical Laboratory and supervised research in various nuclear techniques. He represented Zambia to the IAEA General Conference and Board of Governors. He taught chemistry at the University of Uppsala and University of Zambia.

Dr. Chitumbo has published several papers in area of Chemistry, Safeguards and nuclear non-proliferation. He has also written several IAEA internal documents of sensitive and confidential nature.

 

COBB Jonathan

Dr. Jonathan Cobb has been studying the issues climate change and sustainable development from a nuclear industry perspective for ten years. He is currently Media Director and Advisor on Climate Change for the World Nuclear Association.

Dr Cobb represents the WNA at meetings of the International Chambers of Commerce and at meetings of the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change.
As a representative of the Business Non-Governmental Organization delegation Dr Cobb has presented position statements to the Commission on Sustainable Development.
Dr Cobb started his career at BNFL as a Research Associate at in the R&D department at Sellafield, having studied in situ catalysis of methanol synthesis at the University of Liverpool. Subsequently he worked as a Corporate Analyst in BNFL’s Commercial department before transferring to Corporate Strategy to explore boundary conditions for new nuclear build. Focussing on climate change, Dr Cobb represented BNFL at the Emissions Trading Group, which provided UK industry input in the development of the UK and EU emissions trading schemes. He also contributed to BNFL’s input into the UK government’s consultations on nuclear energy policy. Dr. Cobb also provides support to WNA’s Working Group on Sustainable Development and Climate Change.

In his spare time Dr Cobb is a keen photographer and has performed with a number of improvised comedy groups.

 

COWLEY Steven

Professor Steven Cowley became Director of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Laboratory in September 2008. He received his BA from Oxford University and his PhD. from Princeton University. 

Professor Cowley's post-doctoral work was at Culham laboratory and he returned to Princeton in 1987.  He joined the faculty at the University of California Los Angeles in 1993 rising to the rank of Full Professor in 2000. 

From 2001 to 2003 he lead the plasma physics group at Imperial College London.  He remains a part time professor at Imperial College. 

From 2004 to 2008 he was the Director of the Center for Multi-scale Plasma Dynamics at UCLA.  His main research interests are: the theory of fusion plasmas, the origin of magnetic fields in the universe, the theory of plasma turbulence and explosive behaviour in both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.  He has published over 120 papers and articles. 

Professor Cowley co-chaired the US National Academy's decadal assessment of, and outlook for plasma science: Plasma Science: Advancing Knowledge in the National Interest (National Academy Press 2007).  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics.

 

 

ECHAVARRI Luis

Luis Echávarri was appointed Director-General of the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1997, a position he holds at the present time.

Mr. Echávarri was born in 1949 in Bilbao, Spain. He obtained Masters Degrees from the Superior Technical School of Industrial Engineering of Bilbao University and from the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutensis University of Madrid. He obtained a post-graduate degree in Management from the Industrial Organization School of Madrid, and is a Fellow of the College of Industrial Engineers of Madrid.

Mr. Echávarri began his career as an engineer in Bilbao and in 1975 joined Westinghouse Electric in Madrid. He went on to become Project Manager of the Lemoniz, Sayago and Almaraz nuclear power plants, for Westinghouse, in Spain. In 1985 he became Technical Director of the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council. He was named Commissioner of the CSN in 1987, a position which requires the approval of the Spanish Parliament.

In July 1995, Mr. Echávarri became Director-General of the Spanish Nuclear Industry Forum, a post held until July 1997.

Mr. Echávarri represents the OECD/NEA at the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency since 1997 and he became a member of the IAEA’s INSAG in 2003.

 

ELLIOTT David

David Elliott, a physics BSc, PhD, is Professor of Technology Policy at the Open University and co-director of the OU Energy and Environment Research Unit (EERU). He worked initially with the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell and then  for the Central Electricity Generating Board in Bristol, before moving, in the early 1970's, to the Open University, where he has developed courses on technological innovation, focusing in particular on renewable energy technology. Current interests include the development of renewables in Central and Eastern Europe and the plans for creating an EU-wide ‘supergrid’ power transmission  network.

He is  co-chair  of the policy committee of the World Renewable Energy Congress and has be involved with a range of submissions to government bodies. He served for a period on the Energy Research Review Group set up  by the governments Chief Scientific Advisor.

Prof. Elliott has written extensively on renewable energy policy, including 12 books more than 40 reports and over 50 academic journal papers.  He is editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s Energy, Climate and Environment monograph series, which includes ‘Nuclear or No?” a critical look at nuclear power, and ‘Sustainable Energy’, a strategic review of renewable  energy opportunities and problems. He is also editor of EERU's  long established journal, Renew, parts of which can be accessed at http://eeru.open.ac.uk/renew_online.htm. BSc Applied Physics, London Southbank University, and a PhD in  Solid State Physics, Chelsea College, University of London.

 

ELLIS James

James O. Ellis, Jr. was elected President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 18, 2005.
INPO, sponsored by the commercial nuclear industry, is an independent, nonprofit company whose mission is to promote the highest levels of safety and reliability – to promote excellence – in the operation of nuclear electric generating plants.

In 2004, Admiral Ellis completed a distinguished 39-year Navy career as Commander of the United States Strategic Command during a time of challenge and change.  In this role, he was responsible for the global command and control of United States strategic and space forces, reporting directly to the Secretary of Defense.

A 1969 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Admiral Ellis was designated a Naval Aviator in 1971.  His service as a Navy fighter pilot included tours with two fighter squadrons, and assignment as Commanding Officer of an F/A-18 Strike/Fighter Squadron.  In 1991 he assumed command of USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.  After selection to Rear Admiral, in 1996 he served as a carrier battle group commander leading contingency response operations in the Taiwan Straits.

His shore assignments included senior military staff tours directing operations for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Plans, Policy, and Operations).  He has also served as Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe and Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe during a time of historic NATO expansion, leading United States and NATO forces in combat and humanitarian operations during the 1999 Kosovo crisis.

Mr. Ellis holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, a Master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and, in 2005, was inducted into the school’s Engineering Hall of Fame.  He also has a master’s degree in aeronautical systems from the University of West Florida.  He completed United States Navy Nuclear Power Training and was qualified in the operation and maintenance of naval nuclear propulsion plants.  He is a graduate of the Navy Test Pilot School, the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) and the Senior Officer Program in National Security Strategy at Harvard University.

His personal awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal (three awards), Navy Distinguished Service Medal (two awards), Legion of Merit (four awards), Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), and the Navy Commendation Medal, as well as numerous campaign and service awards.  He was presented the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, the Star of Merit and Honor from Greek Ministry of Defense and the Grand Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

 

EL-SHANAWANY Mamdouh

Professor Mamdouh El-Shanawany is an international expert on nuclear safety. He is currently Head of the Safety Assessment Section, Division of Nuclear Installations Safety at the IAEA, and a visiting professor of Nuclear Engineering, at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University. The main responsibilities of the Safety Assessment Section are to strengthen Member States’ capabilities (Regulatory Bodies, Designers and Operators) in effective safety assessment and safety enhancement of nuclear installations. The over arching approach is through the development and application of Safety Standards and guides for advanced safety methods/tools and guidance on risk informed decision-making processes.  He is a representative of the IAEA on the Commission of Nuclear Safety Standards, International Nuclear Safety Group, Nuclear Safety Steering Committee, and OECD/Nuclear Energy Agency, Committee of Safety of Nuclear Installations.

Professor El-Shanawany is an Independent Expert Evaluator for research project allocations, UK Engineering & Physics Science Research Council and Euratom Nuclear Research and Training Activities, European Commission. He was also a member of Generation IV Technical Advisory Committee of the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry. 
Prior to joining the IAEA, he was employed by Her Majesty’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, the UK Regulatory Body, where he was responsible for managing, assessing and formally agreeing and accepting the Licensees’ arrangements and safety cases for faults studies and severe accidents analysis for the operating plants. In the early nineties he was a Senior Nuclear Safety Specialist, Directorate of Safety Analysis and Assessment, Atomic Energy Control Board, Canadian Government.

Before moving to nuclear regulation, he spent almost 20 years within the UK nuclear industry. He was Head of transient analysis section at the National Nuclear Cooperation and supported the transfer of water reactor technology to the UK industry.

He has published more than 20 technical papers at international conferences and in journals and more than 40 reports dealing with both technical and management for safety issues.
For the last 34 years, he has provided leadership, design, research & development, analysis, management and critical safety assessment, applications of Statutory regulatory requirements and policy development for the nuclear industry in the UK, Canada and Internationally.

 

FORSBERG Charles

Dr. Charles Forsberg is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study.

Before joining MIT, he was a Corporate Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and recipient of the 2005 Robert E. Wilson Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for outstanding chemical engineering contributions to nuclear energy, including his work in hydrogen production and nuclear-renewable energy futures. 

He received the American Nuclear Society special award for innovative nuclear reactor design. Dr. Forsberg earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from MIT.  He has been awarded 10 patents and has published over 200 papers.

 

FRANK Gideon

Gideon Frank (1943) has been involved with research and development for the government and the business sectors, management and international nuclear policy and non-proliferation issues.
After joining the Israel Atomic Energy Commission he became (1970) the Director of the Research Reactor in Soreq Nuclear Research Center, afterwards assumed the position of Deputy General Manager for Engineering and Technology of the Soreq Center and from 1982 served as the General Manager of the Center.

Since 1990 he served in the Israel Atomic Energy headquarters first as the Deputy Director General and from 1993 until Sep. 2007 as the Director General of the IAEC. Mr. Frank's international experience includes designation as an Inspector in the Department of Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, appointment as the Scientific Counselor to the Israel Embassy in Washington, participating in different expert forums and representing Israel as head of delegation in international conferences.
Mr. Frank is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission.

He obtained his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and M.Sc. in Nuclear Sciences from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

 

GONZALEZ Abel

Dr. Abel Julio GONZÁLEZ is an international expert on radiation protection and safety. He is currently Member of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, Commissioner of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, Member of the Commission of Safety Standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vice-President of the International Radiation Protection Association and Senior Advisor of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Argentine Government.

Over two decades and until 2005, he was the IAEA Director for Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety. Before, he had been Director of the Argentine Atomic Energy Commission.

He has published over 200 scientific and technical papers, has contributed towards more than hundred publications of international committees and groups in these subject areas, has managed several important international projects and has been honored with several international awards including the Sievert Prize (the highest international decoration in radiation protection), the IAEA Distinguished Service Award, the Morgan Award from the Health Physics, the Lauriston S. Taylor Lecturer award of the US National Commission of Radiation Protection and Measurements, and the IAEA Special Service Award.

He is regular lecturer at the international IAEA Post-Graduate Course on Radiation Protection and at the World Nuclear University. Beside his membership of IRPA, he is founding member of the Argentine Radioprotection Society (SAR). IRPA has nominated him as President of its forthcoming XIIth International Congress (IRPA12), which is being organized by SAR and will take place in Buenos Aires in October 2008.

 

GOOREVICH Richard

Richard S. Goorevich is the Director of the Office of International Regimes and Agreements in the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Agency.  His office is responsible for providing technical guidance to the USG on international nuclear affairs, nuclear safeguards, nuclear and WMD Dual-Use export control policies, and international physical protection requirements. 

He frequently serves as a negotiator for US agreements for nuclear cooperation and has served as a delegate to the IAEA General Conference and the NPT Review Conference.
Mr. Goorevich is the current Chairman of the Nuclear Suppliers Group Consultative Group and is a member of the USG's delegation to the NPT Exporter's Committee.  His office is also responsible for the issuing of US export authorizations for nuclear assistance, commonly referred to as “810 authorizations”.

Prior to joining the Office of International Regimes and Agreements, Mr. Goorevich spent two years working in the Department of Energy's New Production Reactor Program.
Mr. Goorevich received his B.A. in History from Miami University in 1988, and his M.A. in History from the University of Buffalo in 1990.

 

GRANDEY Jerry

Jerry Grandey is president and CEO of Cameco Corporation, one of the world’s largest uranium producers and a growing nuclear energy company. During more than 30 years in the mining industry, Jerry has acquired a broad range of experience, from practicing lawyer specializing in resource and environmental law, to senior executive of several mining companies.

He currently serves on the boards of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Saskatoon YMCA and is past chair of the World Nuclear Association.

Jerry holds a degree in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a law degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. As well, Jerry spent two years in the US military in the late 1960s.

 

 

 

HAM Adrian

Adrian Ham is a business economist with an international reputation in the nuclear energy field. Formerly chief executive of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Industry Association, he became a member of BNFL’s Nuclear Investment Advisory Board and now works as an independent consultant. As director of consultancy in British Energy plc, he headed numerous projects including the European Union’s TACIS programme supporting the Ukrainian Government in restructuring of Goscomatom to form Energoatom. He was chief economist at Nuclear Electric plc from 1990 to 1996 , having previously been commercial director, Alcan Extrusions ( UK) . With a Unilever scholarship to Cambridge university, Adrian Ham graduated in economics.

After an early career as an economist at the OECD in Paris, he was appointed Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government 1974-79. Publications include a submission to the UK 2006 Energy Review with Dr Bob Hall, a book on government policy formation ( ‘Treasury Rules’, Quartet Books) and many articles for the Economist Intelligence Unit publications, including reviews of the world metal markets.

He enjoys golf, sailing and painting, and is married, with a daughter and son.

 

HARTENSTEIN Michel

Michel Hartenstein is presently senior Vice-President for Engineering at TN International and Advisor to the Board of the World Nuclear Transport Institute (WNTI).

Michel Hartenstein joined AREVA NP (then FRAMATOME) for 12 years, where he participated in the construction of nuclear power plants, notably in Chinon (France) and Koeberg (South Africa). He then joined TN International (AREVA group) in 1990 as Director of Quality and Information Systems. He was later seconded to the transport subsidiary NTL (European transport of spent fuel to reprocessing plants) as Acting Director. He was then seconded to the radioactive transport cask maintenance company MMT as General Manager, dealing with a fleet of over 4000 casks.

He spent a few years of lobbying for international transports around the world and at the IAEA, where he represented France in the International Steering Committee on Denial of Shipments.

Michel Hartenstein graduated in Chemistry at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris and in Business Administration at the Paris Institut de Contrôle de Gestion.

He is member of, and chairs a regional group of the French Nuclear Energy Society (SFEN).

 

HOWSLEY Roger

Dr. Howsley was the former Director of Security, Safeguards and International Affairs (SSIA) for British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. and has over 25 years international experience relating to nuclear non proliferation and security across the nuclear fuel cycle, working with the IAEA, Euratom, National Police Forces and security organisations.

 He was Chairman of the UK's Atomic Energy Police Authority on a biennial basis between 1996 and 2005 and managed its transition to become the Civil Nuclear Constabulary in 2005, an armed police force responsible for the protection of the UK's civil nuclear sites. He led BNFL's response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, assessing and leading the programme of security enhancements at BNFL sites and interacting with Government at all levels, including an 18-month investigation into nuclear security by the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology.

Since 2001 he has been appointed to serve on the IAEA Director-General's Standing Advisory Group on Safeguards Implementation (SAGSI). Dr. Howsley holds a first class honours degree and doctorate in Life Sciences from the University of Liverpool in England.

 

HUTCHERSON George

George Hutcherson is corporate secretary and director, Industry and External Relations, for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) in Atlanta, Georgia. In his current position, Mr. Hutcherson is responsible for INPO’s interface with regulatory agencies and the industry.  He is also an exit representative for plant evaluations.

INPO, sponsored by the nuclear industry, is an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the highest levels of safety and reliability ¾ to promote excellence ¾ in the operation of nuclear electric generating plants.

Mr. Hutcherson joined INPO in 1986 and has held a variety of management positions with INPO and the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), including deputy director of the WANO-Atlanta Center and deputy director of the WANO-Coordinating Center in London, England.  He was on loan to Consolidated Edison of New York as chief nuclear engineer.  Prior to joining INPO, Mr. Hutcherson worked at the U.S Department of Energy’s Hanford Reservation, holding several management positions including manager of N Reactor Operations and director, special programs and training.

He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and has a bachelor of science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy and a master’s degree from the University of Washington.  He also received senior reactor operator certification at Limerick Generating Station.

 

ISAACS Tom

Tom Isaacs is consulting professor at Stanford University in the Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is also the Director of Planning and Special Studies at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board. Throughout his career, Mr. Isaacs has been involved in issues at the intersection of nuclear power, national security, and waste management.

He was Director of Policy and Deputy Director of Geologic Repositories in the U.S. Department of Energy and managed the comparative evaluation of sites that led to Yucca Mountain. He was Deputy Director for Safeguards and Security and before that helped design the core of the U.S. FFTF breeder reactor.

He advises countries on radioactive waste management, in particular recently assisting the Canadian program in formulating its recommendations to the government on how Canada should manage its spent nuclear fuel. He serves on the advisory committee for two U.S. university nuclear departments.

Mr. Isaacs holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. in engineering and applied physics from Harvard University.

 

 

JAMES Simon

Simon joined the Nuclear Industry Association in September 2003. His first job after leaving school was with the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell. He is a physicist by training but has worked as a communications professional for over ten years in a wide range of areas including politics, local government, medical research and nuclear energy.

Simon handles public affairs issues for the NIA, developing policy initiatives and maintaining contacts with Westminster politicians and civil servants as well as having special responsibility for providing NIA input into the EU decision making process.

From 1993-4 Simon worked for the Liberal Democrat Party, for the party headquarters and for then Party Leader Paddy Ashdown. From 1995-98 he was a political advisor to the leader of Kingston Council (a council he is now an elected member of serving as cabinet member for planning and regeneration) followed by five years in the communications unit of the Local Government International Bureau (the Local Government Association’s European and International arm). Simon came to the NIA following short spells at the Medical Research Council and working for Edward Davey MP.

 

KIDD Steve

Steve Kidd is Director of Strategy & Research at the World Nuclear Association, the international association for nuclear energy based in London, England.

After a brief period as an economics tutor at Sheffield University, he followed a career as an industrial economist with leading UK companies. These specialized in the raw materials and engineering sectors and included Rio Tinto and Rover Cars. He practiced as an independent consultant from 1990 onwards and then joined the former Uranium Institute as Senior Research Officer in 1995. He assumed his present position when the Institute changed its name to the World Nuclear Association in 2001.

Mr Kidd received his bachelors and masters degrees in economics from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge and was the winner of the Adam Smith Prize. He authors many articles on the commercial aspects of nuclear power, is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetings around the world and is the author of the recent book, “Core Issues – Dissecting Nuclear Power Today”. Finally, he organizes and teaches at training courses for nuclear professionals in developing nuclear countries on behalf of the World Nuclear University.

 

KIM Byung-Koo

Byung-Koo Kim, otherwise known as BK, was recruited by the IAEA based on his successful career in the nuclear field and his intimate exposure to the work of the IAEA. BK has uniquely served as IAEA Director for all regions of the world, beginning work at the IAEA TC Department in early 2002 as Director of Africa and Asia, and then to the Division for Europe and Latin America, where he until recently served  as Director for the Europe Division. He retired from the IAEA in 2008 and returned back to Korea. He is a visiting professor at Konyang University near Daejeon, teaching “International Relations” in the liberal art school.

Prior to his work at the IAEA, BK had an extensive career that traces back to the beginning of nuclear development in South Korea. BK's first work on completion of his PhD in Applied Mechanics from the California Institute of Technology in the USA, was at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Senior Test Engineer. With his heart bent on working in South Korea, BK chose to return to Korea and serve in many different capacities from 1975 to 2002 at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). BK was responsible for developing indigenous capabilities in research reactor systems for power reactors. One of the highlights of BK's career was his service as Project Manager for the first Korean Standardized Nuclear Power Plant which went into commercial operation in 1995. In 1994, BK was designated as Member of SAGSI to serve as an Advisor to the IAEA Director-General on Safeguards, of which he served in advisory capacity until 2001.

During that time, BK was Director for the Nuclear Control Technology Center at KAERI, responsible for managing national safeguards inspections. In 2001, BK was promoted as Vice-President for Advanced Nuclear Technologies at KAERI. As Vice-President, BK was involved in managing numerous national projects including nuclear fusion, laser, artificial intelligence and robotics technologies. Shortly thereafter, BK was recruited to join the IAEA TC Department in its mission of Atoms for Peace.

BK began his undergraduate education at Seoul National University in Korea and then transferred to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA to complete his studies in Mechanical Engineering. BK then proceeded to continue his studies in Applied Mechanics and concluded his PhD from the California Institute of Technology, USA.

BK is married to Seong Ai Kim, who is Professor of Food and Nutrition at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, Korea. They have two married sons and four grandchildren. BK enjoys traveling and hiking during his free time, and is an active member of the Catholic Church.

 

 

KONISHI Toshio

Toshio Konishi is part-time Consultant for the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) in Tokyo.

He has been involved for years in developing fast neutron reactors for electricity generation at Hitashi Ltd, Japan before moving to the IAEA where he served from 1995 to 2003 - until his retirement – at the Department of Nuclear Energy as Scientific Secretary on the application of nuclear heat for extracting fresh water from the seawater.

During his assignment at IAEA, Mr. Konishi contributed to the collection and analysis of relevant information on nuclear desalination, the evaluation of and the provision of technical advice to national and regional nuclear desalination project planning. He also coordinated technology transfer from technology holders to potential end-users of nuclear desalination, mainly developing countries in Asia and the MENA countries (Middle-East and North Africa), through the international meetings and publications. The major instrument was the IAEA Technical Cooperation Programmes.

 

LAWRENCE Michael

With over forty years experience in the Government and commercial nuclear sectors, Mike Lawrence brings extensive leadership, knowledge and drive to the UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL).

Mike joined the NNL in April 2009 having played key roles in major US and international nuclear programmes and laboratories.  This includes management of the Hanford site in the US and its comprehensive clean-up programme. He led the transition of the site to a clean-up mission and his experience is of great relevance as the NNL continues its close support to the Sellafield site.
In the 1990s, Mike was President and CEO of Pajarito Scientific Corporation, specialising in the detection, measurement and characterisation of nuclear materials and subsequently Chief Operating Officer of BNFL Inc.

He joined Battelle in 2000 and led the $224M Research Campus of the Future Project at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) - the largest upgrade project in the Lab’s history.
Mike has strong partnership values developed through his career in the private and public sector, including working for the US Department of State as Councillor for Nuclear Policy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).  He was also responsible for the implementation of the U.S. geologic repository program in the 1980’s.

Mike and his wife Cindy have three grown children, and two grandchildren.  They live in Eskdale, Cumbria, UK.

 

MASSART Serge

Serge Massart is Head of the EDF Nuclear Operations Division (DPN). In this capacity, he is responsible for the safety and operation of the entire French nuclear fleet, comprising 58 PWR units spread across 19 sites, operated by a staff of 19 000 and 1 EPR unit in construction (Flamanville 3). In total, the operating units account for 63 100 megawatts of installed capacity and generate more than 85 % of the power produced by the EDF Group in France.

Prior to filling this position, Mr Massart was Head of the EDF Nuclear Engineering Division (DIN) from 2002 to 2005. This division takes charge of EDF nuclear projects such as the EPR and design modifications to the existing fleet. Mr Massart was previously Deputy Head of the Nuclear Operations Division, after having been Plant Manager of Fessenheim nuclear power plant for a period of 6 years (Fessenheim celebrated 30 years of operation in 2007).

Mr Massart joined EDF in 1977 as a start-up engineer at Gravelines nuclear power plant. He then occupied various positions in the areas of radiation protection and maintenance, before becoming deputy plant manager of Golfech nuclear power plant. He sits on the following boards of directors : EDF BELGIUM, the Compagnie Nucléaire de Services (CNS) and the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) Paris Centre.

He has strong working ties with the Société Française d'Energie Nucléaire (French Society for Nuclear Energy) and the Société Française de Radioprotection (French Society for Radiation Protection).

 

 

McCOMBIE Charles

Dr. Charles McCombie, is an independent strategic and technical advisor to various national and international waste management programmes. He has over 35 years experience in the nuclear field, 25 of which are in radioactive waste management. He is an author or co-author of over 150 published papers and articles. For 20 years, he was scientific and technical director of Nagra, the Swiss Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste. Currently one of his chief responsibilities is as Executive Director of the Arius Association. Over the past few years, he has provided advice and technical input to numerous national waste management programmes. His responsibilities throughout his career have covered reactor safety, performance assessment for disposal, repository engineering and geological investigations and overall programme direction.

He currently chairs the International Technical Advisory Committee and the International Board of Counsellors of NUMO (the HLW organisation of Japan) and of the Nuclear Advisory Committee of the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute. For 8 years he served on the U.S. National Research Council’s Board on Radioactive Waste Management.

He received a B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and a Ph.D. degree in physics (materials science) from the University of Bristol, England.

 

 

MERRIFIELD Jeffrey

The Honorable Jeffrey S. Merrifield joined the Shaw Group in August 2007 as the Senior Vice President of the Power Group.

As a member of the Power Group’s executive team, Mr. Merrifield is focused on enhancing the group’s external relationships including government affairs, marketing and communications, customer relations and strategic planning. Mr. Merrifield has been particularly involved in supporting the group’s nuclear related efforts.

Mr. Merrifield served two terms (1998 to 2007) as a U.S. Senate-confirmed Commissioner of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Appointed by President Clinton and reappointed by President Bush, Mr. Merrifield served as one of five individuals overseeing this independent Commission that regulates the safety and security of the 104 operating nuclear power plants in the United States.

During his tenure, Mr. Merrifield led a number of high-level U.S. government delegations that included visits to 30 of the 31 countries that operate nuclear power plants, touring more than half of the world’s 440 operating nuclear units.

Before he was appointed to the NRC, Mr. Merrifield served as the Staff Director for the United States Senate Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control and Risk Assessment (January 1995 to October 1998).

From September 1992 to January 1995, Mr. Merrifield served as an associate of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of McKenna and Cuneo. From January 1987 to July of 1992, Mr. Merrifield served as a legislative assistant for two New Hampshire Senators.

 

OMOTO Akira

Dr. Akira Omoto is a Director of the Division of Nuclear Power at IAEA since January 2004. As a director, he works in support of existing nuclear reactors for excellence in operation, of countries considering introduction of nuclear power and of reactor technology development including INPRO.

Before working for the IAEA, he was a General Manager of the Department of Nuclear Power Engineering of The Tokyo Electric Power Company, one of the utility companies in JAPAN with a fleet of 17 BWR units.

He graduated from the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the University of Tokyo and received his doctoral degree from the same university.

 

 

MOORE Patrick

Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 30 years. He is a founding member of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. As the leader of many campaigns Dr. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction while Greenpeace became the world's largest environmental activist organization.

In recent years, Dr. Moore has been focused on the promotion of sustainability and consensus building among competing concerns. He was a member of British Columbia government-appointed Round Table on the Environment and Economy from 1990 - 1994. In 1990, Dr. Moore founded and chaired the BC Carbon Project, a group that worked to develop a common understanding of climate change.

Dr. Moore served for four years as Vice President, Environment for Waterfurnace International, the largest manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps for residential heating and cooling with renewable earth energy.

As Chair of the Sustainable Forestry Committee of the Forest Alliance of BC, he leads the process of developing the "Principles of Sustainable Forestry" which have been adopted by a majority of the industry.

In 1991 Dr. Moore founded Greenspirit, a consultancy focusing on environmental policy and communications in natural resources, biodiversity, energy and climate change.

In 2000, Dr. Moore published Green Spirit - Trees are the Answer, a photo-book that provides a new insight into how forests work and how they can play a powerful role in solving many of our current environmental problems. Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1969-1972; Ph.D. in Ecology, Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, 1972; Honours B.Sc. in Forest Biology, University of British Columbia.

 

 

NIGON Jean-Louis

Jean-Louis Nigon, retired since September 2005, spent his last professional year seconded by AREVA to the WNU Coordination Centre in London. He has been serving as a mentor during each SI. He is presently working part-time voluntarily for the WNU.

He previously worked as deputy vice-president (fuel business first, then R&D) for AREVA-NC (COGEMA) for sixteen years. He was simultaneously a Delegate to the Nuclear Standard Activities of AREVA, and Chairman of ISO-TC85, the Technical Committee on Nuclear Energy.

While working for Areva-NC, M. Nigon taught “Nuclear Reactor Technology” at the Conservatoire National des Arts-et-Métiers in Paris, an educational institution specifically dedicated to the continuing education of young professionals who want to improve their qualifications.

From 1967 to 1990 M. Nigon worked for the Commissariat à L’Energie Atomique (CEA) in Saclay, Grenoble, and Cadarache (France) in the areas of core physics, thermal-hydraulics and safety as well as core and fuel design for submarines.

Jean-Louis Nigon is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique; he also received a degree in Reactor Physics. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. Even more important than all the above, he is a grandfather of six grandchildren.

 

 

PATE Zack

Zack T. Pate is chairman emeritus of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) after working to build WANO from its inception and serving as chairman from 1997 to 2002. Formed in response to the 1986 Chernobyl Accident, WANO is a worldwide association of utilities that have the responsibility for operation of nuclear electric generating plants. The mission of WANO is to maximize the safety and reliability of these plants. All 34 countries that operate more than 440 nuclear reactors worldwide are members.

Since 1998 Dr. Pate is chairman emeritus of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) in Atlanta, Georgia. INPO, sponsored by the nuclear industry, is an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote excellence in the operation of nuclear electric generating plants. Dr. Pate was named chairman emeritus of INPO following 18 years of service with the Institute, including 14 years as president and CEO, and later as chairman.

From 1958 to 1980, Dr. Pate served in the United States Navy. His assignments included chief engineer and commanding officer of nuclear-powered submarines. In the latter assignment, he was awarded a Legion of Merit. For his last three years of naval service, he was a special assistant to Admiral H. G. Rickover at the Naval Reactors Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Pate has received a large number of awards or recognition for his service to the worldwide nuclear industry including among others the William S. Lee Award for industry leadership - the U.S. nuclear utility industry’s top award - , the James N. Landis Medal Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for “outstanding performance () in nuclear power. .”, the World Nuclear Association Distinguished Contribution Award, recognizing his role as chairman and founder of WANO, and a WANO Nuclear Excellence Award established by the WANO Governing Board “in his honor and in recognition of his leadership in promoting excellence in the worldwide nuclear industry.”

Dr. Pate graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. In 1970, he received a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Michon, Inc., a high-tech company in Atlanta. He co-chairs the World Nuclear Association (WNA) Advisory Board; and is chairman of the World Nuclear University (WNU).

 

PELLAUD Bruno

Bruno Pellaud studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich where he received a M.S. in Nuclear Physics, at the University of Lausanne where he got a M.A. in Economics and at New York University where he earned a PhD in Nuclear Engineering. In the sixties and seventies, he worked in research and in management in California and in Switzerland. In the eighties, he was Head of the Nuclear Department of a Swiss engineering company involved in the construction of a large nuclear power plant in Switzerland.

In 1993, Bruno Pellaud became Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna and Head of its Department of Safeguards - focusing on the strengthening of the safeguards system, and dealing with the North-Korean, Iranian and other issues. Back in Switzerland since 1999, he is President of the Swiss Nuclear Forum, the main nuclear association of the country, as well as nuclear consultant and occasional adviser on nuclear security and proliferation matters to the Swiss Government.

 

PERCHET Francois

François PERCHET has recently joined the World Nuclear University Coordinating Centre (WNU-CC) in London. He is working there on loan from his French parent company, EDF. He has been working for more than 30 years within the Nuclear Power Industry, at different PWR power stations and corporate engineering positions. His past experience extends from commissioning and outage, to various managing positions, in Operation, Maintenance and Safety. He held also some technical project management position (IT and Reliability Studies). This gives him a broad experience in everyday aspects of Nuclear Power Plant Operation, including Maintenance and Technical Support, and of course always with Nuclear Safety in mind! But, as he is keen to tell you, he thinks that in this Industry, you are more than likely to bump into something new everyday.  And learn new things about technique, people, different working cultures… and yourself on the way.

He has gained also some international experience, through his past two-year assignments in the USA (at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operation – INPO) and in China (Senior Technical Advisor in Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station).

He graduated in 1976 from one of the leading Engineering School in France, “Ecole Supérieure d’électricité”.

 

 

PETERSON Scott

Scott Peterson is vice president for communications at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). He was elected vice president by the NEI Executive Committee in 2001 after having served as senior director for NEI’s Communications Division since 2000. Mr. Peterson directs the Institute’s activities in media relations, coalition activities, advertising, editorial and creative services, public opinion research and industry communications.

Mr. Peterson has 24 years of professional experience in communications, 17 of which have been with the nuclear energy industry. At NEI, he also has served as senior director for external communications and led the activities of three major communications groups at NEI: media relations and advertising; coalition and outreach; and government communications.

Before joining NEI, Mr. Peterson was director of communications for the American Nuclear Energy Council, a government relations organization for the nuclear energy industry and one of three groups merged in 1995 to form the Nuclear Energy Institute. He also served as a senior media relations representative at Illinois Power and was a reporter and columnist at newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Mr. Peterson received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina. He has completed the Reactor Technology Program for Utility Executives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of the National Press Club.

 

PRADEL Philippe

Philippe Pradel, age 52, a graduate of France’s leading engineering school Ecole Polytechnique began his career with the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) as a research scientist on the SUPERPHENIX liquid metal fast breeder reactor and was part of the team that started up that reactor.

Mr. Pradel joined COGEMA in 1987 as manager of start-up testing for chemical extraction and vitrification facilities of the UP3 Treatment Plant at La Hague. Then he successively became Technical Director, Treatment Division Director, Treatment Business Unit Director and in 2003, Senior Executive Vice President of COGEMA, in charge of Treatment, Recycling and Logistics.

Since 2005, Mr. Pradel is the Director of the Nuclear Energy Division at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), in charge of the whole nuclear energy sector.
Since 2006, Mr Pradel is member of the board of AREVA. Since 2007, Mr Pradel is chairman of the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform. Mr Pradel is Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and of the National Order of Merit. Mr Pradel received the decoration of “the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon”.

 

 

RITCH John

Ambassador John Ritch is Director General of the World Nuclear Association (WNA), a position he assumed in 2001.

For the previous seven years he was American ambassador to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna, including the IAEA. While in Vienna, Ambassador Ritch focused primarily on strengthening worldwide safeguards against nuclear weapons proliferation and on the nuclear crises with Iraq and North Korea. John Ritch began his career as an Army officer, serving on the DMZ in Korea and in the Pentagon. In 1972 he joined the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Senator J. William Fulbright. Ritch served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 22 years as senior advisor on East-West relations, NATO affairs and nuclear arms control.

 Ambassador Ritch is a 1965 graduate of West Point, where he was an academic All-American basketball player. He holds an M.A. in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

 

 

ROCKWOOD Laura

Laura Rockwood is the Section Head for Non-Proliferation and Policy Making Organs in the Office of Legal Affairs of the IAEA, where she has served since 1985. Her primary areas of responsibility are safeguards and non-proliferation. She provides legal support to the Department of Safeguards, as well as to the former Iraq Nuclear Verification Office established to carry out Agency activities pursuant to United Nations Security Council resolutions related to Iraq's nuclear weapons programme. She has also participated in three conferences of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Ms. Rockwood has been involved in the negotiation, interpretation and implementation of IAEA safeguards agreements (including those concluded with Iran, Libya, North Korea and South Africa), and was the principal author of the document that became the new legal instrument developed to strengthen IAEA safeguards, the Model Additional Protocol. She has also been involved in the trilateral negotiations between the IAEA, the Russian Federation and the United States of a draft agreement for the verification of materials released from weapons programmes.

Ms. Rockwood received a BA in Social Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Juris Doctor from Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco. She is a member of the California and Washington, DC bars.

 

SALVATORES Massimo

Dr Massimo SALVATORES is scientific advisor to the Director of the Nuclear Energy Division of CEA and also serves as senior advisor at the Idaho National Laboratory, at the Argonne National Laboratory and at the NUKLEAR Program at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Germany). In 2007 has been named Policy Director of the Generation-IV International Forum.
Dr. Salvatores holds a PhD in physics from the University of Turin (Italy). After theoretical and experimental research at the Italian Atomic Energy Commission and at Argonne National Laboratory in the early seventies, he joined the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA-Cadarache, France) as head of the Reactor Physics Laboratory in charge of the SUPERPHENIX startup experiments. He then headed the CEA Reactor and Fuel Cycle Physics Division, in charge of theoretical method development and experimental work both for thermal and fast reactors.

In the ‘90s he chaired the Nuclear Science Committee and the Joint Evaluated Nuclear Data File (JEF) project of the OECD-NEA. Dr. Salvatores has led and still leads numerous national and international studies on Plutonium management and innovative recycling strategies, and on Partitioning and Transmutation technologies and their impact on the fuel cycle. As for Accelerator Driven Systems, Dr. Salvatores conceived and launched the first world-wide sub-critical experiments (MUSE at Cadarache) and the first-of-a-kind 1MW Liquid metal Spallation Target Experiment (MEGAPIE), which was successfully completed at PSI (Switzerland) in 2006.

Moreover, he still performs basic research work on nuclear data sensitivity and uncertainty analysis and on advanced simulation validation. He leads research programs in these fields both for DOE and for OECD-NEA.
Dr Salvatores has been awarded in 2002 the “Grand Prix Ampère” of the French Academy of Sciences and the American Nuclear Society (ANS) “Nuclear Technology Award” and, in 2005, the “Eugene Wigner” Award of the ANS. He is also a Fellow of the ANS. He has been nominated Nuclear Engineering Distinguished Technical Lecturer at North Carolina State University for 2008.
He has more that 200 articles on various (often original) aspects of reactor physics and nuclear fuel cycles. He has also served as Professor at the National Institute for Nuclear Sciences and Technology (INSTN) and did teach courses at the Ecole National Superieure de Chimie in Paris. He has been the founder of the International Summer School in Reactor Physics “Frédéric Joliot/Otto Hahn” and he is presently member of the Executive Committee of the International Summer School “MeV: Modelisation, Experiments and Validation”, sponsored by INL, ANL and Idaho State University.

 

 

SCHOCK Robert

Robert Schock is Director of Studies for the World Energy Council (WEC) in London (www.worldenergy.org) and consulted by industry, laboratories and governments worldwide. At WEC he is engaged in the study of energy policies worldwide and the practices they foster. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Center for Global Security Research in the U.S. and has studied the application of technology to global policy issues. He was a Coordinating Lead Author (Energy Sources) for the 2007 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), authoring and coordinating a chapter on mitigation measures for energy sources. For its work the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

He was a senior scientist, then group leader (high-pressure physics), section leader (geosciences), division leader and department head (earth sciences), and deputy and then associate director (energy programs) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, retiring in 2002. He has initiated and led programs at the local and national level in energy R&D, high-level nuclear waste disposition, environmental restoration and waste management, fusion energy, hydrogen fuels, energy policy analysis, and climate change focused energy research. He also played a leading role in the U.S. government’s efforts to examine the application of new technology to the proliferation resistance of civilian nuclear power. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on pending legislation and is an author on over 100 scientific papers and technical reports. He was a Senior Fulbright Fellow in Bonn, Germany in 1973, and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra in 1980. He has served on the editorial boards of five scientific journals and technical books.

Dr. Schock holds a BSc degree in geology from Colorado College, and an MSc degree in geology and geochemistry and a PhD in geophysics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is married to the former Susan E. Benton and they have three daughters and four grandsons.

 

SCHWARTZ Julia

Julia Schwartz, a Canadian, is Head of Legal Affairs at the OECD/Nuclear Energy Agency. She is responsible for providing legal services to the NEA's Nuclear Law Committee, assisting NEA management with legal aspects of the Agency's activities, helping member countries establish international joint projects and ensuring the success of the Agency's nuclear law information and education programme. A particularly important function during her tenure has been assisting the Paris and Brussels Supplementary Conventions States to modernise those instruments.

Before joining the OECD, Julia worked as in-house counsel to Atomic Energy of Canada Limited dealing primarily with nuclear law (domestic/foreign), public law and policy, environmental law and commercial law matters. She began her professional career with the Canadian Department of Justice, assigned to legislative, financial and scientific procurement issues.

Julia is an observer to the IAEA's International Expert Group on Nuclear Liability and the FORATOM Legal Task Force. She is the Registrar of the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal, regularly lectures at the International School of Nuclear Law and is active in the International Nuclear Law Association on whose Board of Management she currently sits. She is also a member of the Ontario Bar (Canada).

Julia is married with 4 step-children and 11 step-grandchildren.

 

SKODA Radek

Radek received his M.Sc. in Experimental Particle Physics from the University of Bergen (1998) and his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Czech Technical University (2002). Before that he had also obtained B.S. and M.Sc. in finance and M.Sc. in nuclear engineering.

In his career, Radek initially focused on financial risk management for Dublin and London based investment banks, followed by work in the Department of Nuclear Reactor of the Czech Technical University in Prague where he is based now. He lectures topics related to NPP fuel cycle and economics. Research-wise Radek focuses on neutronic problems of the PBMR project or was responsible for the successful HEU-LEU fuel replacement at the university nuclear reactor.

 

SLEZAK Jan

Mr Jan Slezak currently serves as Uranium Resource Specialist in the Department of Nuclear Energy, Division of Nuclear Fuels Cycle and Waste Technology in the IAEA.
Mr Slezak holds a M.S. in Mine Geology and Geological Exploration (University of Mining and Metallurgy, Ostrava, Czech Republic 1985), a M.S. in Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology (Charles University, Prague 1992), and a Dr.Rer.Nat in Applied Hydrogeology to Mining (Charles University, Prague 2004).

His career with Czechoslovak Uranium Industry/DIAMO included many positions in several areas of uranium production technology. Started as an underground mine geologist on different level, continued as Head of Resource Administration Section, Geology Department and the Head Geologist in the In Situ Leach mine in Straz pod Ralskem. He was involved in many international projects, mainly on remediation after uranium production.

Mr Slezak was involved in the formation of the World Nuclear University – School of Uranium Production and served as a lecturer in 2006.
Mr Slezak authored many articles on uranium production cycle activities.

 

STRICKER Laurent

Laurent Stricker, Advisor to the CEO of Electricité de France and Chairman of WANO (World Association of Nuclear Operators), was Head of Nuclear Operations for six years from 1999 to 2005. He was responsible for the operation of the French nuclear fleet – 58 nuclear units, representing a generating capacity of approximately 63,000 MW – and heads a staff of about 20,000 persons.

He is CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission) Board member. Furthermore, he was WANO Paris Center Governing Board Chairman and SOCODEI chairman. He is now member of the board of WNA (World Nuclear Association).

Laurent Stricker's career at Electricité de France and at CEA spans 35 years, his extensive experience being mainly in nuclear generation. He has held numerous positions among which, Director of the Grid and of the Thermal and Hydraulic Generation, supervising generation and transmission facilities. Prior he was Head of the Radiation Protection and Environment Department in Paris. He was Plant Manager at Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux for 3 years. He was also superintendent of Bugey training centre.

Mr. Stricker has had extensive formal training and education in chemical, metallurgical and nuclear engineering, and holds a “Diplôme d'Ingénieur” from both the “Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble”, France, and the “Institut des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires”, Saclay, France. He also holds a diploma from Nancy University in Eastern France.
Laurent Stricker served as President of French Society of Radiation Protection from 1991 to 1993.

 

TONHAUSER Wolfram

Wolfram Tonhauser is the Section Head of the Nuclear and Treaty Law Section, in the Office of Legal Affairs of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and in this capacity he is responsible for all nuclear and international law matters in that office. He has served as scientific secretary to a large number of international forums concerned with radioactive waste management, radiation protection, the safety of research reactors, the safety and security of radiation sources, the safe transport of radioactive material, nuclear security and liability for nuclear damage. He was also the responsible legal officer at the IAEA for the adoption of the Convention on Nuclear Safety, the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management and the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.

Mr. Tonhauser has published a number of articles in the areas of nuclear safety, security and liability for nuclear damage and is a co-author of the IAEA's Handbook on Nuclear Law. Mr. Tonhauser is also the coordinator of the IAEA's Nuclear Legislative Programme, providing assistance to IAEA Member States in the drafting of national nuclear legislation.

Mr. Tonhauser received and completed his legal training (First and Second State Examination in Law) in Germany.

 

WALTAR Alan 

Dr. Alan E. Waltar currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA., having recently retired as Director of Nuclear Energy. He serves as well as a consultant to the IAEA and the U.S. Department of Energy. He was Professor and Head, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University from 1998 to 2002, where he helped to build that program into the largest Department of Nuclear Engineering in the nation.

Dr. Waltar served as President of the 16,000-member American Nuclear Society during 1994-1995. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering (University of Washington, 1961), an M.S. in nuclear engineering (MIT, 1962), and a Ph.D. in engineering science (University of California, Berkeley, 1966).

His distinguished career with Westinghouse Hanford Company included leadership positions in several areas of advanced reactor technology. He served on the faculty at the University of Virginia where, with Professor Albert Reynolds, he co-authored the “Fast breeder reactors” textbook. Along with the Russian translation, this book has become one of the standard instructional books for fast spectrum reactors.

Dr. Waltar was instrumental in the formation of the World Nuclear University Summer Institute (SI) and has served as a mentor and a member of the faculty for the Inaugural SI in Idaho Falls, Idaho (2005), the 2006 SI in Stockholm, Sweden and the 2007 SI in South Korea.

Dr. Waltar authored “America the Powerless: Facing Our Nuclear Energy Dilemma” in 1995 and in 2004 published his newest book, “Radiation and modern life: Fulfilling Marie Curie’s Dream”, which articulates the enormous beneficial uses of radiation to society.

 

WAKEFIELD Peter

Peter Wakefield is Deputy Director at the World Association of Nuclear Operators Coordinating Centre in London. He is seconded from British Energy where he was the Safety and Technical Director. There he was a Director on the nuclear licensee board for the 15 reactors in the BE fleet. Organizationally he was in charge of Safety and licensing, Design authority, Nuclear fuel procurement and liabilities, Environment and nuclear liabilities, and Quality assurance.

Peter joined BE in March 2005 from Eskom, the large vertically integrated South African power utility (40GW installed capacity, >200TWh/yr – in excess of 50% of all the electricity in Africa).  Over 28 years he was closely associated with the nuclear programme being the first Operating Manager at Koeberg and held a Senior Reactor Operator License. Later he moved through Station, Corporate Engineering and Technology management posts.  These included technical and safety oversight of Operation, Transmission and Distribution, as well as nuclear regulatory interfacing. In this latter role he was involved with licensing the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor demonstration plant.

Earlier in his career he spent four years in the UK power industry (design, manufacture and station commissioning) and one and a half years in the French nuclear power programme mostly at Bugey and Fessenheim Power Stations.

He is Chairman of the Senior Industry Advisory Panel to the GEN IV International Forum and has an Electrical Engineering Degree and executive management education from South Africa and Switzerland.

 

WEIGHTMAN Michael

Dr Mike Weightman is Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations and Director of the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Nuclear Safety Directorate.

Formerly, he was a Deputy Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations and headed the Division of HSE's Nuclear Safety Directorate that regulates the UK's nuclear power station sites, both operating and decommissioning. Prior to that he led the NSD Division that regulates BNFL and Urenco nuclear fuel cycle sites including Sellafield. Dr Weightman sits as the UK representative on the OECD Committee for the Safety of Nuclear Installations and the OECD's Committee of Nuclear Regulatory Authorities.

He led the UK's mission to the first and second review meetings of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and Radioactive Waste Management, and the third review meeting of the Convention on Nuclear Safety. From May 2002 Dr Weightman also chaired the investigation board that oversaw the investigation into the Potters Bar rail tragedy. He is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist, and has degrees at BSc, MSc and DPhil levels.

 

 

WHITE Andrew

Andy White is President and CEO of Trilliant Inc, and Chairman of the World Nuclear Association. He graduated from Bath University, UK in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1981. He joined GE as an engineer for Europe, Africa, Middle East operations based in London. His first positions were located in Africa and the Middle East managing infrastructure projects for power generation, transmission and communications systems.
He then moved to the USA, and advanced through engineering and project management to senior leadership positions in GE’s Energy business. He was promoted to executive in 1992 responsible for Energy Services, Asia Pacific based in Singapore and Hong Kong. He then returned to the USA and moved through the ranks of General Manager, Senior Executive, to becoming a GE Corporate Officer and President & CEO, GE Nuclear Energy in 2003. 
He has 30 years of experience in the Energy Industry, has served on 12 boards including Nuclear Energy Institute, WNA and 2 University advisory committees..

 

YANEV Yanko

Yanko Yanev is the Head of the Nuclear Knowledge Management Unit of the IAEA.

Yanko Yanev studied at the University of Sofia, taking MSc in Nuclear Chemistry and a PhD in Environmental Radiochemistry. For more than 20 years he developed an academic career as a professor in Nuclear Chemistry and Head of the Radiochemical Laboratory of the University of Sofia. In 1991 he was appointed Chairman of a Special Government Commission, which reviewed the nuclear power industry in Bulgaria. Other highlights include: President of the State Committee on the Use of Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes from 1991 to 1996 (the Bulgarian Atomic Energy Commission) and Vice Chairman of the IAEA's Board of Governors. He has worked as a senior energy consultant to the Bulgarian-Russian Investment Bank, and took up the post of Programme Liaison Officer in the Department of Nuclear Energy at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1998. In 2001, he was appointed Section Head of the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) and has been the Agency’s cross-cutting coordinator for Nuclear Knowledge Management since 2002.

His fields of expertise cover: environmental radiochemistry, nuclear chemical engineering, nuclear power and nuclear safety, nuclear and energy regulation. Mr. Yanev is a member of various professional societies and the Bulgarian Energy Policy Association. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers and conference reports in the field of nuclear chemical engineering, environmental issues relating to nuclear power, radiation and nuclear safety, and energy regulation and management. He has served on a number of international committees: as co-chairing Committee III on the Conference for the Extension of the Treaty for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Arms (New York, 1995); as Bulgaria's representative in the Plenary meeting and meetings of the Steering Committee of the G‑24 Co‑ordination Mechanism for Improving the Safety of Soviet-designed Nuclear Power Plants, the EC group of nuclear regulators (CONCERT) and many others.