Ignacio Araluce Director of the Paris WANO Center

• Autores: Ignacio Araluce
• Localización: Nuclear España: Revista de la Sociedad Nuclear española, ISSN 1137-2885, Nº. 343, 2013, págs. 7-9
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The experience of the Spanish nuclear industry and its professionals is internationally recognized. For this reason, this issue of Nuclear España has an extraordinary distribution in various markets and is being published in English for greater circulation in countries with nuclear interests.

    One of the most well known Spanish professionals in international organizations is Ignacio Araluce. As Director of the Paris WANO Center, he has talked to us about the most important initiatives of this association, which is an umbrella organization for the operators of all the world’s nuclear power plants.

    Ignacio Araluce is a physicist who majored in fundamental physics, and he has a Master’s degree from the former Junta de Energía Nuclear.

    He began his professional career in 1979 in Tecnatom, where he obtained the license of Nuclear Facility Supervisor, and he trained the first teams of operators of the second generation of nuclear power plants.

    In 1981 he joined Almaraz NPP as head of operations and five years later became head of production. In 1988 he was appointed plant director, a post he held until December 31, 2001.

    After that he was Director of the DTN and from there moved to Slovakia to direct the Bohunice plant support project.

    In 2006 he was named director of the Paris WANO Center