Didier Jacquemain

Dr Didier Jacquemain is a Senior nuclear safety specialist at the NEA since January 2020. He is a technical advisor for the working groups active under the Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) and a technical co-ordinator for the NEA joint nuclear safety research projects. Before joining NEA, he worked for 27 years at the French Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nuclaire (IRSN) in the nuclear safety research area and was mostly involved in research programmes on fuel safety, severe accidents and ageing with an active contribution to international research projects in nuclear safety. He received a PhD in physical chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) in 1992 and graduated from the Ecole Superieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon in 1988. His book on Nuclear Power Reactor Core Melt Accidents was published in 2015.