Benefits and Limitations of Nuclear Fission for a Low-Carbon EconomySymposium Agendaand Speakers

Contribution to the decision-making process on the Euratom part of Horizon 2020

Co-organised by the European Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee

Symposium

Benefits and limitations of nuclear fission for a low-carbon economy

26-27 February 2013Brussels

©European Union, 2013Cover and p. 9 © suravid/shutterstock.com

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It is our great pleasure to bid you all a warm welcome to this important event, “Benefits and limitations of nuclear fission for a low-carbon economy”.

In 2011 the EU Council invited the European Commission “to organise a symposium in 2013 involving a broad spectrum of stakeholders to contribute to the debate on the benefits and limitations of nuclear fission for a low-carbon economy. The symposium will be prepared by an interdisciplinary study involving, inter alia, experts from the fields of energy, economics and social sciences.”

The European Commission (DG RTD, DG JRC, DG ENER) has taken this mandate and has closely worked with colleagues in the European Economic and Social Committee to put together a programme which will facilitate an open debate.

Research efforts lie at the heart of all technologies in the energy mix, including nuclear fission. This conference will certainly provide constructive and important advice vis-à-vis future research needs in the domain.

The Programme for this Symposium represents a broad cross-section of stakeholders and concerned parties from across Europe. A holistic approach will facilitate and stimulate the debate.

Our thanks go to the colleagues in the different services of the European Commission as well as in the European Economic and Social Committee for putting together this Symposium and to the contributors to the Study on “Benefits and limitations of nuclear fission for a low-carbon economy”, as well as the European Group on Ethics, for their time and dedication.

The views of all conference participants will be instrumental in shaping the political vision for the future of nuclear fission research in Europe.

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DAY 1 TUESDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2013

09.00 – 09.55 Registrations

09.55 WelcomeRobert-Jan SMITS, Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

OPENING SESSION - The European and wider context

Chairperson - Laure BATUT, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee

The European science and energy landscape Dominique RISTORI, Director-General, JRC, European Commission

Civil society and its relevance to research and innovation on societal challengesStéphane BUFFETAUT, EESC, Chair of the TEIIS Section

Ethical impact of research on different energy sources on human well being Julian KINDERLERER, Chair of the European Group on Ethics

Importance of EU R&D for nuclear fission safety, safeguards and security James LYONS, IAEA Director, Division of nuclear installation safety

Industry view of EU nuclear fission research for a low-carbon economyJean-Pol PONCELET, Director-General of Foratom

Contribution to the debate at European level Tom HANNEY, Representative of the IE Presidency of the Council of Ministers

Views of the European Parliament on nuclear fission researchPeter SKINNER, European Parliament, ITRE Committee, Rapporteur for Euratom

12.00 – 13.30 Buffet Lunch

SESSION ONE – Challenges and opportunities

Chairperson - Vladimir ŠUCHA, Deputy Director-General, JRC, European Commission

Rapporteur - Richard ADAMS, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee

13.30 Introduction

Keynote speech - Example of a multidisciplinary research and innovation project Hamid AÏT ABDERRAHIM

Panel 1 – Outcome of the studies

Recommendations and key messages John WOOD

EU energy policy and SET-Plan William D’HAESELEER

Security of energy supply, a strategic view Paul KRUEGER

ERA, E&T and skills François WEISS

Q/A session

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

Panel 2 – Research and science-based policies

Nuclear safety and security in EU and beyond Victor TESCHENDORFF

Science based policies and legislation Jozef MISAK

People, quality of life and the environment William NUTTALL

Summary of the website’s forum inputs Richard ADAMS

Q/A session

18.00 – 19.00 Cocktail

DAY 2 WEDNESDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2013

08.30 – 08.55 Welcome Coffee

SESSION TWO – Future research needs at European Union level, Stakeholders’ views

Chairperson - Philip LOWE, Director-General, DG Energy, European Commission

Rapporteur - Gerd WOLF, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee

09.00 Introduction

Keynote speech - Energy Center of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Hans PÜTTGEN

Panel 3 - Research community, academia and industry

Melodi European Association Jacques REPUSSARD

Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform Paul HOWARTH

Implementing Geological Disposal Technology Platform Marjatta PALMU

KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute János GADÓ

OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Thierry DUJARDIN

Q/A session moderated by Ann Maclachlan (journalist)

11.05 – 11.30 Coffee Break

Panel 4 - Safety authorities and civil society

Friends of the Earth Europe Patricia LORENZ

French Nuclear Safety Agency Philippe JAMET

Inst. Sicherheits & Risikowissenschaften, Wien Univ. Wolfgang LIEBERT

Network of European Technical Safety Organizations Frank-Peter WEIß

European Economic and Social Committee Ulla SIRKEINEN

Q/A session moderated by Ann Maclachlan (journalist)

13.15 – 14.30 Buffet Lunch

CONCLUDING SESSION – Role of nuclear fission research for a low-carbon economy

Chairperson - Robert-Jan SMITS, Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Rapporteur - Richard ADAMS, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee

14.30 Summary by rapporteur of Session 1 Richard ADAMS

Summary by rapporteur of Session 2 Gerd WOLF

Round table with J. Kinderlerer, J. Wood and J. Kjems (STC)

Final Q/A session

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

CLOSING SESSION - Role of nuclear fission research and innovation to tackle EU challenges

16.30 The need for European research and innovation to face tomorrow’s challenges Günther OETTINGER, European Commissioner for Energy

Symposium’s conclusions

17.30 Closure of the Symposium

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Speakersby alphabetical order

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He is partner and/or coordinator of various projects of the European Commission Framework Programme related to advanced nuclear systems or to partitioning and transmutation of high level nuclear waste management. He is presently the Chairman of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) working group of the European Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP, www.snetp.eu) initiated in September 2007.

He is author of more than 100 scientific publications in peer review journals and international conferences. He directed many PhD and masters theses in the various fields of nuclear technology.

Hamid AÏT ABDERRAHIM is specialised in Reactor Physics, Reactor Dosimetry, Fuel Cycle and Nuclear Reactor Technology.

Prof. Dr. Hamid Aït Abderrahim started his career in 1989 at SCK•CEN, the belgian Nuclear Research Centre, as Researcher Neutron Calculation. A few years later he became Head of the Section Group Reactor Dosimetry and then Head of Department Fuel Research. Since 1998 he is the Director of the mYRRHA project: an accelerator driven system coupling a sub-critical Pb-bi cooled reactor and a high power proton accelerator through a spallation target. Since June 2010 he is also Deputy Director-General.

Prof. Dr. Hamid Aït Abderrahim is lecturing reactor physics and nuclear engineering at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) at the mechanical engineering department of the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL).

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Richard ADAMS is a co-chair of the European Nuclear Energy Forum and President of the European Economic and Social Committee’s European Energy Community group.

He was rapporteur on recent EESC Opinions on the energy and low-carbon roadmaps, nuclear safety cooperation outside the EU, radioactive waste management, and public engagement in the energy policy debate. He is founder of several successful UK social enterprises that allow people to express ethical values through their work, spending or saving.

The majority have been focussed on fair trade, the problems of social exclusion, fuel poverty, international development and sustainability. He has authored a number of books on corporate social responsibility and launched the UK’s first ethical supermarket chain. He has academic degrees in sociology, theology and business and holds a number of honorary doctorates and visiting fellowships from british universities.

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Stéphane BUFFETAUT, Chairman of the energy, transport, infrastructures and information society of the European Economic and Social Committee, has obtained degrees from the Sorbonne university in European law. He is a former member of the European Parliament.

He is president of an important funding association for social housing in France, and president of various social housing firms and representative of the MEDEF (French employers association) in various bodies dedicated to the question of employees housing.

In the EESC, he represents the French public transports association.

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2010 Elected as quaestor by EESC-Group II

2004 EESC-Group II member, sections SOC & TEN

Permanent member at FO Confederation Headquarters / Europe-International Department

member of Force-Ouvrière, Unions Confederation

Senior Officer - French Customs - Ministry of Finances

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He spent the beginning of his career within the French CEA, being successively Field Engineer, Project manager, Head of a research unit mainly in the area of uranium enrichment, Executive Deputy-Director for International Relations with a specific responsibility regarding the Inter-ministerial coordination for the Euratom Treaty affairs with a direct link to the Prime Minister’s office and a mission of providing expertise to the Government on foreign nuclear policy, and Director of the Scientific and Technical Information Division.

Thierry DUjARDIN joined the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD in 2001 as Deputy Director for Science and Development. In this domain, the NEA activities range from the development and dissemination of sound scientific and technical knowledge to the provision of authoritative, reliable information to governments on nuclear technologies, economics, strategies and resources.

Dr. Dujardin is also responsible for the Technical Secretariat services that the NEA provides to the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) and since January 2012, NEA acting Deputy Director-General. He got a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

William D’HAESELEER is a professor in the Faculty of Engineering Science at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), belgium. His research encompasses integrated energy systems, energy management, energy and the environment and energy policy.

He is Director of the KU Leuven Energy Institute and Head of the Division of Energy Conversion. He was Chairman and member of the European Commission’s Advisory Groups on Fusion (EAG-FU) and Energy (Age) in 1998-2002, 2002–2006 and 2009–2012. He is Chairman of the European Energy Institute think-tank.

He has coordinated research projects that include European Sustainable Electricity Generation (Eusustel). He chairs the belgian committee of the World Energy Council.

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Paul HoWARTH was appointed managing Director of the National Nuclear Laboratory on 1 January 2011. He is also Executive Director of battelle Energy UK and a visiting professor at the University of manchester.

Prior to working at NNL, Paul held various senior roles at british Nuclear Fuels plc including Director of Advanced Reactor Research, Head of Technology for Nuclear Generation and Head of Group Skills Strategy. He has also headed up technical operations at the berkeley site, worked in Japan on the Nuclear Fuel Programme and sat on various regional, national and international nuclear R&D Committees and Advisory boards.

After leaving bNFL in 2006, Paul co-founded the Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of manchester and was Executive Director. more recently he was a member of the Technical Advisory Panel for the Weightman report into the Fukushima incident.

His career started on the European Fusion Programme in Oxfordshire where he gained his PhD in Applied Nuclear Physics, he also has a first degree in Physics and Astrophysics and an mbA.

jános GADó graduated at the Eötvös Loránd University, budapest, in 1969, as a physicist. In 1999 he became Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is titular professor at the budapest University for Technology and Economics.

J. Gadó has been working in the KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute from 1969. between 1990 and 2012 he was Director of the Institute and now he works as a scientific advisor of the Director. His scientific activity was concentrated on reactor physics, especially on computational modelling. He was the Project manager of the AGNES project (1991-1994) that reassessed the safety of the Paks NPP. As a consequence of the conclusions of the project, Paks NPP performed an extensive safety enhancement programme. J. Gadó is the head of the plant’s consultant team that prepared the feasibility study of power uprate of the NPP and the level 2 probabilistic risk assessment of the NPP. He chaired the advisory team controlling the preparation of the Final Safety Analysis Report of the NPP.

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the Netherlands. He is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Head of the IP Law Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.

Julian has served as the Adviser to a UK House of Lords Select Committee examination of legislation on transgenic organisms in the environment within the European Union, and in 2000 spent a year with the United Nations Environment Programme as Director for biosafety assisting developing countries to develop legislation to implement a multilateral environmental treaty - the Cartagena Protocol on biosafety. He has extensive experience working on policy and legislation addressing scientific topics, especially risk assessment as well as encouraging innovation in developing and emerging countries. He has significant experience in Patent Law.

julian KINDERLERER is President of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE). The EGE is an independent, pluralist and multidisciplinary body comprising 15 individuals that advises the European Commission, Parliament and Council on ethics in connection with Community legislation or policies. They serve in a personal capacity and offer independent advice to the Commission, either at the Commission’s request or on our own initiative. The President of the EGE is elected by and from its members. The EGE membership includes scientists, lawyers, philosophers and theologians.

Julian Kinderlerer is a former Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology Law and Ethics at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, and was Professor of biotechnology Law at Sheffield, having originally been a biochemist/molecular biologist interested in comparative enzymology. Until recently he was Professor of biotechnology and Society at Delft University of Technology in

Philippe jAMET is ASN Commissionner. He is an Ingénieur civil des mines de Paris (a graduate from the Ecole des mines de Paris). He also holds a master of Science from the University of minnesota (United States).

From 1974 to 1993, Philippe Jamet performed safety research within the CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission) in structural mechanics, thermal behaviour of structures and thermo-hydraulics.

From 1993 to 2007, he worked for the IRSN (Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety) where he occupied various positions. In 1995, he was appointed Head of the Safety Assessment Department, where he was responsible for the safety assessment of all the French nuclear facilities. In 2003 he became Deputy Director-General for the Institute.

From 2007 to 2010, he was Director of the Division of Nuclear Installation Safety at the IAEA.

Philippe Jamet was appointed ASN Commissioner by Presidential decree on 15 December 2010.

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Lecturer for military strategy and doctrine at the military Leadership School and Swiss military Academy / National Institute of Technology

Lecturer for Strategy and Strategic Intelligence at the Technological University of Lucerne.

Former Chief Planning Division Swiss Armed Forces, Responsible for Strategic Architecture / methods and conceptual framework development

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Director Strategic Security and Intelligence SCALARIS ECI AG Switzerland

Advisor for Strategic Crisis management Swiss Federal Administration

Lecturer for Strategy at the military Academy and the General Staff College Swiss Armed Forces

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b S in military Science from the Swiss National Institute of Technology

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jørgen K. KjEMS is trained as a condensed matter physicist and had as such a distinguished career at Risø National Laboratory in Denmark, where he joined the laboratory management as Scientific Director in 1988.

He became the managing Director of the Laboratory in 1997. Risø National Laboratory merged with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and four other government research institutes in 2007. Jørgen K. Kjems served as a member of the management team at DTU until the end of 2008 with responsibility for energy programmes and international affairs. In 2009 he formed Kjems R&D Consult as Owner and Director, and acts as a senior advisor to universities, ministries and international organisations. He is a member of the STC since 1997 and has also served on the Advisory Group on Energy until this year.

Jørgen K. Kjems is author and co-author of about 150 scientific papers published in national as well as international scientific periodicals.

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Patricia LoRENz completed her master´s degree in interpretation with focus on NPP terminology in Vienna and specialised in nuclear energy.

In 1993 she started to work with the Austrian Environmental Organization Global 2000 (now Friends of the Earth Austria). She focused on the nuclear power plants surrounding Austria: Temelin in the Czech Republic, mochovce and bohunice, both in the Slovak Republic.

In 2000 Patricia Lorenz joined Friends of the Earth Europe in brussels and started the Abolish EURATOm campaign. In 2002 Patricia Lorenz organised the FoEE EURATOm conference in the European Parliament.

She also gained expertise and campaigned on many other nuclear issues: nuclear liability, nuclear safety, and participated in several EIA/ESPOO processes and represents FoEE on EU level. In her current work she focuses on the implementation of the Aarhus Convention in the field of nuclear energy and EURATOM, stress tests, final repositories in Europe.

Wolfgang LIEBERT studied physics and philosophy at German universities. Dissertation in theoretical physics. 1999-2012 Scientific Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Science, Technology and Security (IANUS) of Darmstadt University of Technology. Currently Head of the Institute of Safety/Security and Risk Sciences (ISR) of the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (bOKU) in Vienna (Austria).

main research interests: nuclear non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament; prospective technology assessment; assessment of nuclear research and technology; philosophy of science.

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jim LYoNS is the Director of the Division of Nuclear Installation Safety at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria.

The Division of Nuclear Installation Safety is responsible for the development of the IAEA safety standards relevant to nuclear installation safety. In addition, the division provides advisory and peer review services that are directly related to the areas addressed by the safety standards, such as the operation, design and siting of nuclear power plants, governmental organisation, research reactors and fuel cycle facilities. The division is responsible for the secretariat of the Convention on Nuclear Safety and is a major contributor to training and capacity building activities performed by the IAEA for countries embarking on nuclear power or expanding their existing fleet.

Jim Lyons started at the IAEA on 1 march 2011, and was a key contributor to the IAEA’s response to the Fukushima Daiichi accident. Prior to joining the IAEA, Jim Lyons had a 29-year career at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, retiring as the Deputy Director of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research,

Philip LoWE is Director-General of DG Energy (ENER) at the European Commission.

Philip Lowe was born in Leeds in 1947. He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St John’s College, Oxford and has an m. Sc. from London business School. Following a period in the manufacturing industry, he joined the European Commission in 1973, and held a range of senior posts as Chef de Cabinet and Director in the fields of regional development, agriculture, transport and administration, before becoming Director-General of the DG DEV in 1997.

From September 2002 he was Director-General of the DG COmP until he took up his current appointment as Director-General of the DG ENER in February 2010.

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jozef MISAK is Vice-President of engineering and research organisation UJV Rež, Czech Republic, mainly involved in development of strategy and nuclear safety coordination for major projects. He has 42 years of nuclear experience, including many years in research.

He was first Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority in Slovakia and a head of safety development at the International Atomic Energy Agency. For the European stress tests following Fukushima he was a member of the governing board and led the severe accident management work.

He is a member of regulatory advisory bodies in Armenia, Slovakia and Ukraine and on the board of the EU’s Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform. He holds a PhD degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague.

Ann MAcLAcHLAN is European bureau Chief of Platts Nuclear Publications, based in Paris, France.

She joined the Nuclear Publications in 1982 after seven years as a reporter and managing Editor with King Publications in Washington, DC and Paris.

With King’s Energy Daily in Washington, Ann maclachlan covered all types of energy production, consumption, policy, and international relations during an era of intense activity. In Europe beginning in 1981, she also covered the defense and metals fields.

In 2000, mcGraw-Hill’s Nuclear Publications - which include Nucleonics Week, NuclearFuel, Inside NRC and Nuclear News Flashes - became part of Platts, mcGraw-Hill’s energy and commodities information division. As European Editor and then European bureau Chief, Ann maclachlan has written countless articles on nuclear energy in Europe and beyond and participated in numerous conferences.

Ann maclachlan was made a Knight in the French Legion d’Honneur in 2001.

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Günther H. oETTINGER is European Commissioner for Energy since 10 February 2010. From 2005-2010, he was Prime minister of baden-Württemberg (Germany) and, since 1984, a member of the regional Parliament (“Landtag”). He was the leader of the CDU Landtag group from January 1991 to April 2005.

A lawyer by training, Günther H. Oettinger became actively involved in politics during his adolescence. He is a member of the Federal Executive Committee and of the Steering Committee of the CDU Deutschlands.

William NUTTALL is Professor of energy at The Open University, in the UK, which he joined in October 2012 from Cambridge University, where he had taught technology policy for 10 years. His career has taken him from experimental physics (PhD mIT, USA 1993) to technology policy with an emphasis on nuclear energy.

At Cambridge he was on the management committee of the Electricity Policy Research Group; he is now an associate researcher. He is author of Nuclear renaissance – technologies and policies for the future of nuclear power (Taylor and Francis, 2005). He serves on the competitiveness sub-group of the European Nuclear Energy Forum and on the scientific advisory board of Next Generation Infrastructures in the Netherlands.

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Jean-Pol Poncelet was Deputy Prime minister, minister of Defence and minister of Energy in the belgian Government from 1995 to 1999 and an elected member of Parliament from 1991 to 2001.

Previously, he was the Chairman of the board of Directors of ONDRAF, the belgian Nuclear Waste Agency. His professional career started with belgoNucleaire, a nuclear engineering company. He later served as a researcher and a lecturer in renewable energy and environment.

Jean-Pol Poncelet, a member of the belgian Royal Society, earned a master’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering from the école Polytechnique de Louvain (belgium) in 1973.

jean-Pol PoNcELET is Director-General of Foratom, the Trade Association of European Nuclear Industry, and Secretary General of the European Nuclear Society.

He was AREVA’s Senior Vice-President Sustainable Development and Continuous Improvement from 2008 to 2011, having joined AREVA in February 2006 as an Advisor to the CEO, Anne Lauvergeon.

From 2001 to 2005, he was Director of Strategy and External Relations of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Marjatta PALMU is Senior Adviser at Posiva Oy, Finland. She joined Posiva in August 2002 from HELIA School of Vocational Teacher Education where she educated vocational teachers as a Principal Lecturer.

mrs Palmu acted as the Project coordinator for the Euratom FP7 Secretariat project of the Implementing Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste - Technology Platform and she has been a member in the authoring working groups of each of the IGD-TP platform’s founding documents i.e. the Vision, the Strategic Research Agenda and the Deployment Plan.

mrs Palmu has worked as an expert in the field of rock engineering, education and training, and in geological disposal of radioactive waste over 30 years.

She has recently served as an expert member in the Committee for Nuclear Energy Competence in Finland established by the ministry of Employment and the Economy.

She continues to serve in the Finnish Nuclear Competence Group and as the other Finnish representative in the Senior Advisory Group of the European Human Resource Observatory for the Nuclear Energy Sector (EHRO-N), an initiative by the European Nuclear Energy Forum. She has recently contributed to the Nuclear Working Group of the European Energy Training Initiative’s Assessment Report and chairs the IGD-TP’s Competence maintenance, Education and Training Working Group (CmET).

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jacques REPUSSARD graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, in Paris. He spent the first part of his career in the French civil service, at the ministry for Industry. He was involved in the EU negotiations leading to the opening of the European internal market, and in 1991 was appointed in brussels as Chief Executive Officer of the European Standards Organization, with the mission of developing the thousands of harmonised standards that were necessary to operate effectively the new internal market.

In 1997, he took up the position of Deputy Director-General of the Institute for Industrial Risks and the Environment.

In 2003, he was appointed as Director-General of the newly created French TSO, responsible for research and expertise in the fields of nuclear safety, security and non proliferation, and radiation protection, IRSN.

Jacques Repussard is also currently President of ETSON, the European TSO network, and of mELODI, the European association for research on the effects of low dose ionising radiation.

At Georgia Tech, he launched the National Electric Energy Test, Research and Application Center, NEETRAC, and served as its Director and management board Chair.

Later, Teddy Püttgen served as President and CEO of Georgia Tech Lorraine, the European campus of Georgia Tech located in France.

He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL. He also holds graduate degrees in business Administration and management from the University of Lausanne. His PhD, in Electrical Engineering, is from the University of Florida.

Teddy Püttgen, who is a Fellow of IEEE, served as President of the Power Engineering Society of IEEE in 2004 and 2005.

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Hans B. (Teddy) PüTTGEN is Director of the Energy Center at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) since April 2006.

before that, Professor Püttgen was Georgia Power Professor and Vice Chair for External Affairs in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

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Ulla SIRKEINEN, mSc (Eng), is member of the European and Economic Committee and acts as Vice-President of the Section for Transport, Energy and Networks (TEN).

She has several times been rapporteur on energy issues, including nuclear. After an early career in administration of international technology cooperation she acted 1992-1995 as Counsellor for industry and energy at the Permanent Representation of Finland to the OECD. 1983-1992 and 1995 onwards she was Director at the Confederation of Finnish Industries in charge of technology policy, industrial policy and later energy policy. 2005-2010 she headed the Confederation’s EU office in Brussels. She is member of the Swedish Academy of Technical Sciences in Finland.

Whilst Director in charge of General Affairs and Resources at Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, he was responsible for interinstitutional relations; enlargement and international relations; coordination of energy and transport research; internal market, state aids, infringements and public service obligations; passengers’ and users’ rights; central management of human and budgetary resources (2000-2006). between 1996 and 1999, he was Director in charge of European Energy Policy at Directorate-General for Energy.

In the period 1990–1996 D. Ristori was in charge of transnational cooperation between SmEs at the Directorate-General for Enterprise policy.

D. Ristori graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (1975).

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D. Ristori has been working in the European Commission since 1978 where he has held several positions. Prior to his current position, he was Deputy Directorate-General of the Director-General for Energy, in charge of nuclear energy policy, in particular the development of the EU legal framework and international relations (2006-2010).

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mr. Smits is chairing several high-level committees such as European Research Area Committee (ERAC) and the Steering Committee of the ERC (ERCEA).

Robert-Jan Smits was born in the Netherlands in 1958. He has degrees from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Institut Universitaire d’Hautes Etudes Internationales in Switzerland and Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in the United States of America.

Robert-jan SMITS is Director-General of DG Research and Innovation (RTD) at the European Commission. In this capacity he is responsible for defining and implementing EU policy and programmes in the field of research and innovation (average annual budget EUR 8 billion).

His previous assignment was Deputy Director-General of DG JRC where he was responsible for Programmes and Stakeholder Relations, Resource management, and three institutes, being the Institute for Energy, the Institute for Environment and Sustainability and the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies.

before that mr. Smits was Director for the European Research Area: Research Programmes and Capacity

Peter SKINNER is the European Parliament rapporteur on the Euratom Framework report for 2020.

He was first elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 1994. He is a leading member of the Economic and monetary Affairs Committee and has served on the committee for 16 years. In addition, he is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

Peter Skinner plays a central role in the European Parliament’s relations with the United States as the European Parliament’s longest serving member on the Transatlantic Economic Council, which is part of the Transatlantic Legislators’ Dialogue.

Peter Skinner graduated from bradford University as an Honours Graduate in Economics and Politics, and post-graduate studies at Warwick business School. He is a Fellow of the University of Sunderland. He is also a qualified HR professional.

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Victor Teschendorff was a Division Head for reactor safety research in the nuclear safety company Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) until 2010. He received his diploma in mechanical and chemical engineering from the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH).

He was engaged in development and validation of simulation codes for nuclear reactor accidents and gained expertise in thermal-hydraulics, fuel behaviour and severe accident processes. He contributed to licensing cases in Germany and abroad. Until 2009 he was Chairman of the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations programme review group of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency.

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Prior to that he worked as the Director of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (2005-2006), the Slovak national body for funding research, promoting international cooperation, research culture, and scientific advice.

He also worked as the Principal Advisor for European Affairs for the minister of Education of the Slovak Republic (2004-2005). He covered research, education and culture portfolio for the Slovak Representation in the EU in brussels from 2000 to 2004.

At the same time he has a long-term academic background - a full professorship of the Comenius University in bratislava and lecturing at different institutions in many countries.

He used to be a member of many advisory and governing bodies at the national, European and international levels.

He is the author of about 100 peer reviewed publications.

Vladimir ŠUcHA is Deputy Director-General of the JRC at the European Commission.

Previously (2006-2012), he was a director at the Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission.

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Frank-Peter WEIß graduated from the Physics Department of the Dresden Technical University and defended his doctoral thesis in nuclear reactor physics in 1986.

Until October 2010, Dr. Weiß had been Director of the Institute of Safety Research at Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. There, he was responsible for accident analysis of nuclear reactors, the development of CFD codes, and the analysis of irradiation induced ageing effects of RPVs.

Dr. Weiß is Professor at the mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Dresden Technical University where he lectures on methods for reliability and safety analysis.

In November 2010 he became Scientific-Technical Director of Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit.

Dr. Weiß serves as expert in reactor safety to the European Commission, the French CEA, and OECD CSNI. He is member of the German Reactor Safety Commission.

Professor Weiß is author and co-author of more than 350 publications in reviewed journals and conferences.

François WEISS is senior scientist at the French national centre for scientific research (CNRS) and a materials sciences specialist, focusing on superconducting and functional materials. He was director of the materials Science and Physical Engineering Laboratory (LmGP) in Grenoble. He was until 2008 Vice-President for Research of the Grenoble Institute of Technology. Since 2009, he has helped to set up the sustainable energy company Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) InnoEnergy, in the EU’s European Institute of Technology (EIT).

He was education officer for the French co-location centre, devoted to sustainable nuclear and converging technologies. He developed education within KIC InnoEnergy, setting up six international mSc schools and one PhD school with an emphasis on energy innovation and entrepreneurship.

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john WooD CbE, FREng is the Secretary-General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and Visiting Professor of materials at Imperial College London. Apart from academic appointments at the Open, Nottingham Universities and Imperial College he was Chief Executive of the Council for the Central Laboratories of the Research Councils 2001-2007.

He was a founder member of the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures and became Chair in 2004. He chaired the European Research Area board in 2008-2011 and remains a member of the European Research and Innovation Area board. He chaired the Commission’s High Level Group on the future of Scientific Data.

He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1999. He was made a Commander of the british Empire in 2007 for “services to science”, and in 2010 was made an “Officer of the Order of merit of the Federal Republic of Germany”.

Gerd H. WoLF is presently Vice-President of section TEN of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). There he has been rapporteur of numerous “Opinions” – mainly on energy and on research policy – intended to advise EU Parliament, Council and Commission.

After his studies and thesis at the Technical University munich in Technical Physics, he started a career in plasma-physics at the munich max-Planck-Institute for Physics (Heisenberg). In 1975 he became Director at the Institute for Plasmaphysics (now “for Energy Research”) at Research Centre Jülich and later both, Professor for Experimental Physics at Düsseldorf University and Head of the Jülich Fusion Project; being Emeritus from these tasks since 1999.

He is author of many scientific publications and acted on many advisory and other scientific committees, recently becoming associate member of the Academie Royale de belgique. In 2005, he received the order of merit (1.class) of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Symposium website:http://www.eesc.europa.eu/?i=portal.en.events-and-activities-symposium-on-nuclear-fission

The report of the 2012 Interdisciplinary Study on

Benefits and limitations of nuclear fission for a low-carbon economy

Defining priorities for Euratom fission research & training (Horizon 2020)

is available from the website:http://ec.europa.eu/research/energy/euratom/publications/fission/index_en.htm

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