Frédéric Plas (ANDRA, France)
L'incontro fa parte del ciclo 2023-24 "Past-students and Expert Webinars in Nuclear Energy", un programma di webinar sull'energia nucleare tenuti da ex-studenti unipi ed esperti internazionali.
Il ciclo è organizzato nell'ambito del progetto ENEN2plus, dell'European Nuclear Education Network.
Frédéric Plas is civil engineer in applied geosciences with a higher education diploma in mechanics and hydraulics, Mr. Plas began his career in the 1980s at the CEA in a research laboratory on material for radioactive waste disposal. He joined Andra, the French national agency for radwaste management, in the 1990s in the scientific division. Since more than 30 years, various managing positions allowed Frédéric Plas to become an expert in deep geological disposal of radwaste and radwaste management in general, covering different areas: design concept, safety assessment and Performance Assessment, a wide range of scientific disciplines (geosciences, materials sciences, radiochemistry, applied mathematics...), Spent fuel cycle and radwaste conditioning.
Head of the Research and Development Division of Andra during 10 years since 2022, he is now the head of the Cigéo program division in charge of instruction of Construction licensing application of Cigéo projet (industrial center for geological disposal of most radioactive radwaste), and the programmatic and technical authority for the development of Cigéo projet.
