Emmerich Seidelberger is a consultant on safety risks of nuclear technology at the Institute of Safety and Risk Sciences BOKU Vienna. He studied at the Technical University Vienna in 1961-1968. From 1969 to 1981 he worked on development and design of safety systems for pressurized water reactors at Siemens / KWU Erlangen. He was a teacher at Waldorf schools in 1981-1985, and dealt with energy production at the Austrian Institute of Ecology in Vienna in 1986. In 1987-1997 he worked for the Waagner-Biro / AEE in Graz, designing advanced steam generators.

From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Seidelberger was a consultant for the Austrian Federal Chancellery and member of Krško-Commission ICISA. In the years 1997-2012 he was Deputy Director of the Institute of Risk Research, University of Vienna, and later at the Institute of Safety and Risk Sciences BOKU Vienna, working on renewable energy and assessments and reviews of nuclear power plants and interim storage facilities for spent fuel at the sites Temelín, Dukovany, Bohunice, Mochovce, Beznau and Krško. Since 2012 he has worked as a consultant.

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Dr. Ian Fairlie is an independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment with degrees in chemistry and radiation biology. His doctoral studies at the Imperial College, UK and at Princeton University, US examined the health effects of nuclear waste technologies. Dr. Fairlie has acted as a consultant to the UK Government and was Scientific Secretary to the UK Government’s Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (www.cerrie.org).

Dr. Fairlie continues to advise IPPNW, environment NGOs, and local governments. Dr. Fairlie’s area of expertise is the dosimetric impact of nuclear reactor emissions. He has written extensively on epidemiology studies of child leukemias near nuclear facilities, and the hazards of tritium.

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Ilse Tweer is an expert on structural integrity of reactor pressure vessels. She received her PhD in Radiation Damage in Metals from the University of Vienna in 1966. After that, she was an assistant at the University of Vienna, Institute for Solid State Physics, until 1968. In 1968-1970, she did research fellowships at the University of Delaware and the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.

Since 1972, Ilse Tweer has done documentation work for several research institutes in Germany on material science, solid state physics, reactor materials and nuclear medicine. In 1987-1994, she cooperated with the Öko-Institut Darmstadt (NPP Obrigheim); Gruppe Ökologie (NPP Greifswald and Stade) on structural integrity of reactor pressure vessels. Since 1990, she has cooperated with the IRF (IRS)/University of Vienna, been a member of the Austrian Expert Team (NPP Bohunice, Krško, Mochovce and Temelin, trilateral participation under the Melk Protocol) with a specialisation on structural integrity of reactor pressure vessels. In 2013/2016, she has done studies on reactor pressure vessel integrity at the Belgian NPPs Doel3/Tihange2 for the EU Greens. Ilse Tweer is a member of the INRAG.

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Pavol Široký graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava in 2002; he studied Geology, specialising in engineering geology and hydrogeology. In 1993 and 1994, he was an activist and volunteer at Greenpeace Slovakia. He founded the association Za Matku Zem in 1994, where he worked for 17 years on energy and climate projects in Slovakia and abroad. In 2007, he was assistant for AGREE.NET in Slovakia with the Friends of the Earth, CEPA, where he dealt with the position document on sustainable uses of biomass.

Pavol Široký is the founder of the Slovak Climate Coalition network, which he coordinated in 2008-2011. In 2011-2015 he worked as a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Slovakia. He dealt primarily with emission permit trading, coal, energy efficiency, energy security and the Ukrainian-Russian crisis, renewable sources of energy and, in 2013-2015, also issues of uranium and Mochovce NPP. Since 2015, he has worked as an independent expert on energy, climate change and geology, and coordinated energy and climate activities at Za Matku Zem.

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Since 2003, Yves Marignac has been the Executive Director of WISE-Paris, an independent non-profit information, study and consultancy agency on nuclear and energy issues. He joined WISE-Paris in 1996 after applied studies on nuclear issues and public debate at Paris-XI university, the French nuclear institute CEA, and a position at the French nuclear company STMI. He has since participated, as a contributor or an advisor, in most of the national consultation processes on nuclear issues. In 1999-2000, he participated in the economic evaluation of the nuclear option commissioned by France’s Prime Minister, which resulted in what became known as the Charpin-Dessus-Pellat report.

In 2005-6, Mr. Marignac was the scientific and technical advisor to the commission running the French national public debate on the Flamanville EPR reactor. In 2012-13, he participated, within the French Environment Minister’s cabinet, in the organisation and coordination of a National Debate on Energy Transition (DNTE).

Yves Marignac is not an economist, but is dedicated to developing a systemic analysis that bridges economic issues with safety, waste management, industrial and energy policies, and is committed to contributing to pluralist expertise as a basis of fair decision-making processes. An active member of independent expert groups Global Chance and négaWatt, he has coordinated the latest sustainable energy scenario.

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Oda Becker (Physicist) is an independent self-employed scientific consultant for nuclear safety. She studied physics and education science at the University of Hanover. From 2006 to 2011, she had a professorship at the University of Applied Science and Arts, Hanover.

Oda Becker (Physicist) is an independent self-employed scientific consultant for nuclear safety. She studied physics and education science at the University of Hanover. From 2006 to 2011, she had a professorship at the University of Applied Science and Arts, Hanover.

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From 2005 to 2012, he worked as a Legal Officer in DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission and was responsible, inter alia, for the preparation of new legislation in the field of Occupational Health and Safety and the monitoring of its implementation. From 2012 to 2015, he worked as a Legal Officer in the Directorate D – Nuclear Energy, Safety and ITER (Dir D) of DG Energy (DG ENER) of the European Commission. He was responsible for the implementation of various provisions of the Euratom Treaty and its secondary legislation and had taken part in their preparation, and then in the discussions at the Council's Working Party on Atomic Questions (and the EP), of the Commission's proposal amending the 2009 Nuclear Safety Directive, finally adopted by the Council of the EU in 2014. Since August 2015, he has been working as Assistant to the Director Massimo Garribba in Dir D of DG Energy of the European Commission.

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Tobias Heldt studied at Maastricht University and received his Bachelor in European Law in 2010, after which he continued to do a Master in European Corporate and Commercial Law. In 2011 he started his doctoral research at the METRO research institute of Maastricht University, which he finished in October 2015. His doctoral thesis, entitled "A European Legal Framework for Nuclear Liability – Rethinking current approaches" dealt with issues of nuclear liability and the quest for effective incentives to enhance nuclear safety within the European Union and to come to a more transparent and inclusive scrutiny of the nuclear sector.

His main research interests are European Law, Energy Law, Law and Economics, CSR and Compliance. During his PhD research, Tobias Heldt was working as a Legal Advisor for the Belgian Nuclear Research Center.

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