World Association of Nuclear Operators

The World Association of Nuclear Operators ( WANO ), German: World Association of Nuclear Operators, an interest organization of the nuclear industry. It is headquartered in London and four regional centers in Atlanta, Paris, Moscow and Tokyo. All countries and organizations in the world that operate a plant to produce electricity from nuclear energy, are members of WANO. Founded as the WANO in 1989, three years after the Chernobyl disaster.

Even laws task of WANO is through mutual support, information exchange and application of best practice procedures to promote international cooperation and professionalism in the nuclear industry, especially around nuclear power plants to evaluate safer and more reliable as well as to assess their performance, and improve.

Chairman since 2009, Laurent Stricker, a senior consultant at Electricité de France (EDF). George Felgate is since September 2009 ' Managing Director '.

He Yu, CEO of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group ( CGNPG ) was in July 2010 interim WANO President.

History

The inaugural meeting took place in Moscow in May 1989. The first major meetings (" Biennial " ) took place in 1991 with about 250 participants in Atlanta instead; 1993 they met in Tokyo, in Paris in 1995, 1997 in Prague, in 1999 in Canada ( "A new Memorandum of Understanding is signed in between WANO and the International Atomic Energy Agency Regarding cooperation and exchange of information in between the two organizational. " ), October 2003 in Berlin, 2005 in Budapest, 2007 in Chicago, February 2010 in New Delhi.