Members of the Board of EFN



Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy (EFN) is governed by a Board of Directors.

EFN also has a Scientific Committe of about one hundred high-profile radiation and environmental scientists and experts advising the Board of Directors, such as, for example, James Lovelock (inventor of the electron capture detector, i.e. mass spectrometry, and the father of environmental thinking, author of the Gaia theory) and Patrick Moore, cofounder of Greenpeace in 1971 (see their profiles below).

Here are a few words about some of the directors and main actors of EFN.

 

arrow FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF EFN:

Bruno COMBY X-80, DSc-ENSTA

More information about the President of EFN-INTERNATIONAL

See his book Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy (published in English, as well as in French, Japanese, Chinese, etc.).

arrow VICE-PRESIDENT OF EFN :

Gerard Martin, vice-president of EFNGerard MARTIN

Human radiobiology and radioprotection expert, engineer in nuclear physics, graduate of the Radium Institute, the National University  of Advanced Sciences and the University of Radioelectricity  in France, former radiobiology professor, former head of the human and environmental radiobiolgy unit at the CEA (120 persons), former head of department of dismantling of nuclear installations (220 persons).

He has been actively helping EFN since 1997 and is the Vice-President of EFN-International since 2012, and a member of the Scientific Committee of EFN.

He spends half his time in a little house near the beach in Noirmoutiers (on the Atlantic ocean in the south of Britanny) and devotes much of his remaining time to EFN as vice-President and for representing EFN in the CLI's (Commission Locale d'Information) at French nuclear sites, in addition to helping the main office of EFN-INTERNATIONAL.

 arrow GENERAL SECRETARY OF EFN:

Arthur DARDE, graduated from the Ecole Centrale of Paris, works as an expert in the area of energy and environmental protection. His first job as a young engineer was to work for Air Liquide on oxy-combustion, carbon dioxyde sequestration and storage. He currently manages large scale energy conservation projects, optimization of energy performance and sustainable construction projects for Bouygues.

His CV on Linked In : https://fr.linkedin.com/in/arthur-darde-501b9b6a

  

arrow TREASURER OF EFN:

Vincent GINOCCHIO  is a computer engineer. He is the current treasurer of EFN-INTERNATIONAL.

 

 

 

 

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Some other members of EFN :

 

arrow THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF EFN-USA is :

John Shanahan visiting the Flamanville reactor in
            construction in NormandyJOHN SHANAHAN

MS, civil engineer, Doctorate of Engineering from Ruhr University Bochum 1969 (Germany). Sigma Xi Honor Society. He lives in Denver, Colorado. He has been Senior Engineer and Branch Manager at Bechtel Power Corporation, Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, holding various positions in design, research, licensing, management, environmental clean up for nuclear power plants and Department Of Energy (DOE) facilities.
He is a fervent mountain hiker and cyclist
. Since 2013 he is the second President of EFN-USA.
He is also the founder and President of  GO NUCLEAR !
On this photo (above) : visiting the EPR reactor being built in Normandy.

arrow FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT OF EFN :

Dominique Vignon photoDominique VIGNON

He  has devoted most of his career to the planning, design and construction of Nuclear Power Plants. Inside the French Utility, EDF, he led the unit in charge of the Basic Design of the French nuclear fleet and was involved, as Technical Director of the French-German team, in the design of the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR). He had technical and management positions in several projects abroad. He was the Chairman and CEO of Framatome (now AREVA) from 1996 to 2002. He is an international nuclear expert and founding partner of NUC ADVISOR.


FORMER TREASURER :

Jacques GOLLION, retired, specialist of forest management, is a graduate of the highly respected Ecole Polytechnique (1951) and Transmissions University of Montargis. He is especially keen to promote clean energies for our future. He has spent most of his professional career as chief engineer in developing sodium reactors : Rhapsodie, Phenix and Superphenix in France. He joined EFN shortly after it was created, was very helpful in the early years of EFN's develoment in Europe and remained the treasurer of EFN-INTERNATIONAL until 2013.

 


 arrow HONORARY MEMBER OF EFN :

James Lovelock photo

James LOVELOCK, PhD, DSc, FRS, CBE
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, research scientist
  • Famous author and environmentalist.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa of several universities throughout the world,
  • He is one of the founders of environmental awareness. He is the author of the fruitful Gaia theory, presented in The Ages of Gaia (1979), The Gaia Theory (1988), and The Revenge of Gaia (2006) in which the surface of the Earth, its atmosphere, biosphere and oceans, and their interactions are considered as a single self-regulating organism.

Quote: "I am a Green and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy (...) We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources; civilisation is in imminent danger and has to use nuclear -- the one safe, available, energy source -- now or suffer the pain soon to be inflicted by our outraged planet."

More about James Lovelock

 

  FOUNDER OF "YOUNG GENERATION" group of EFN:

 

Delphine PLET

Graduated from EPF Polytechnic University (photo taken at Sellafield)

 

FOUNDER OF THE COMMUNICATION GROUP (GrCOM) OF EFN :

Jacques FROT

Former executive in the oil industry, specialist of oil prices, fossile energies, and the refining of oil products, is a member of the scientific committee of EFN and the leader of the "GRoup of COMmunicators" (GR COM) of EFN. Still rides his bicycle 10,000 km per year at age 83.


 

FOUNDING PRESIDENT OF EFN-USA :

Berol ROBINSON

Ph.D. in nuclear physics of the Johns Hopkins University, environmentalist, former international civil servant (science officer) at UNESCO.

 

 


  FOUNDING PRESIDENT OF EFN-CANADA :

Rod ANDERSON

In his professional life, he was a chartered accountant -- after retiring he became a poet, writer, consultant, composer. "Now, retired, what I would really like to do, personally, is to spend most of my remaining time, as a late beginner, composing music. But when I look at my five grandsons, I wonder what sort of world we're about to leave to their generation -- which is what prompted me to look at the important goals of EFN and then to the creation of EFN-CANADA. Here is a bio of my somewhat unfocused life...". Jerry CUTTLER then became the second President of EFN-CANADA after Rod ANDERSON.

 

A FOUNDING MEMBER OF EFN:

Simone WEISS, nurse, formerly an anti-nuclear activist having actively participated in the anti-nuclear protests and marches against Superphenix in the 1970's and 1980's, progressively became pro-nuclear in the 1990's and participated in 1996 in the creation of EFN and in it's development afterwards, as a founding member. She died in 2007.

 

 

arrow FORMER GENERAL SECRETARY OF EFN AND COFOUNDER OF EFN-USA:

Michel Lung photoLate Michel LUNG  Master of Science (University of Washington, 1955), graduated from the University of Physics and Chemistry of Bordeaux (1952), with a post-graduate in nuclear and technical sciences (Saclay, 1956), former export manager of SGN, Michel was an excellent chemist and a fervent protector of the environment (he owned vines in Bordeaux from which he made his own organic wine). He designed and built the first nuclear reprocessing plant in Japan (Tokai). Michel was Vice-Secretary of EFN-International and played a great part in helping setting up EFN and spreading the word since the organization was created. He was a fervent supporter of hormesis, fought against the anti-scientific LNT theory and was a cofounder of EFN-USA in 2003. He passed away on December 21st, 2007. This picture of Michel was taken at Sellafield in the UK in 2006.

arrow COFOUNDER OF EFN-USA:

Mrs. Claire BRAZILLIER

Born in Louisiana, graduate of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce; former marketing manager of Ingram Micro (one of the world leading companies for the distribution of personal computers). Cofounder of EFN-USA in 2003.


CORRESPONDENT OF EFN FOR THE CZECH REPUBLIC:

Ivana PAUKERTOVA-GLATT

Resident of the Czech Republic, especially motivated by the protection of the environment.

 

FOUNDER OF EFN-POLAND:

Late Zbigniew JAWOROWSKI

Former President of the itnernational UNSCEAR (United Nations Scientific Committee on the Health Effects of Radiation) he was one of the world's top specialists in radiological protection and on the health effects of radiation. A fervent promoter of radiation hormesis.

Activities of EFN-POLAND one year after it's creation

EFN-POLAND 's web site today

Document by Zbigniew Jaworowski on Tchernobyl

Document by Zbigniew on the risks and ethics of radiation

 

arrow PRESIDENT OF EFN-UK :

Brendan Mc NAMARA, a fusion scientist, is the President of EFN-UK.

Stephen Stretton, the previous President, is an economist currently working for Goldman Sachs in London. In addition to helping EFN INTERNATIONAL and setting up EFN-UK, he is also a member of several energy and environmental groups.

See EFN-UK's web site here: http://www.efn-uk.org


PRESIDENT OF EFN-AUSTRALIA :

Richard McNEALL lives in Cheltenham (NSW). Fervent kayaker, is the President of EFN-AUSTRALIA.

 

arrow HONORARY CHAIRMAN  OF EFN-CANADA :

Patrick Moore
                          portrait

Patrick MOORE, PhD
  • He grew up and still lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Cofounder of Greenpeace in 1971.
  • He was the director of Greenpeace International during 7 years, as well as the founder and President of Greenpeace Canada during 9 years.
  • He left Greenpeace because he disagreed with its methods.
  • In 1990 he founded Greenspirit, focusing on global environmental issues including climate change, forests, biodiversity, energy, and sensible environmentalism.

More about the Honorary Chair of EFN-CANADA