WANO elects new executives

28 July 2010


Following a meeting in Murmansk, Russia, the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) has announced changes to its Governing Board. A new president He Yu of China has been elected, while Laurent Stricker of EDF will stay on to serve another term as chairman of the organisation..

Laurent Stricker of France (EDF) was unanimously re-elected to serve a second term as chairman of WANO. This term will expire in January 2013.

He Yu of China has been elected interim President of the international safety organisation. He is chairman of the Board of the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Co., Ltd. (CGNPC), also received unanimous support to succeed former CGNPC Chairman Qian Zhimin as WANO President on an interim basis. He will serve until October of 2011, when a successor will be elected during WANO’s 11th Biennial General Meeting in Shenzhen, China

Also elected to the WANO Governing Board were: James O. Ellis, president and chief executive officer of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO); Sergey A. Obozov, director general of Rosenergoatom; Henri Proglio, chairman and CEO of EDF and Masataka Shimizu, President of Tokyo Electric Power Company and incoming Chairman of the Federation of Electric Power Companies.


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