Ignacio Araluce
- Autores: Ignacio Araluce
- Localización: Nuclear España: Revista de la Sociedad Nuclear española, ISSN 1137-2885, Nº. 387, 2017, págs. 11-16
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
Last March Ignacio Araluce was named president of the Spanish Nuclear Industry Forum, the business association that represents all electrical production from nuclear origin and 85% of the major companies in the sector at the national level.
The organization brings together more than 55 companies which carry out commercial activity in 40 countries worldwide and that employ more than 27,500 people directly or indirectly. Araluce acknowledges that it is an honor to represent the Spanish companies from the nuclear sector through an organization that will celebrate the 55th anniversary of its establishment this year.
Ignacio Araluce studied Physical Sciences and has a Management Development Program degree from the IESE at the University of Navarra. He also holds a degree in Nuclear Engineering from the previous Nuclear Energy Board.
He began his professional career fully connected to the nuclear energy sector in 1979 as an instructor for operating licenses for PWR power plants at Tecnatom. In 1981, he was named head of operations at the Almaraz nuclear power plant, and later, production manager. In 1988, he became the plant director.
In 2005, he began his international experience in Slovakia. For the last ten years, he has directed the WANO team (World Association of Nuclear Operators) from Paris, a worldwide organization of nuclear operators dedicated to increasing the safety and reliability of all nuclear power plants in the world.
Ignacio Araluce assumed presidency of the Spanish Nuclear Industry Forum on March 23, 2017 after the Assembly for the Association Board of Directors was held, “a phase that will be the culmination of my career in the field of nuclear energy,” he pointed out.
