Six Nuclear Presidents Meet Up and Exchange View

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At what was, in all likelihood, a unique gathering of six presidents of nuclear organisations, ENS outgoing president, Andrej Stritar was delighted to participate in an informal exchange of views with some of his counterparts.

The occasion was a lunchtime ‘mini nuclear summit’ organised by Larry Foulke, president of the American Nuclear Society. Larry had seized the opportunity to bring together a 20-strong group of leading lights in the nuclear community during the September 2003 General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.

“The names of the guests and the event had been kept a well-guarded secret,” says Andrej who was attending the IAEA conference as a member of the Slovenian delegation. “It only sank in after we’d all got there that six presidents assembled at once was really significant. That, plus there being no protests and no tight security, came as a delightful surprise!”

The six presidents at the lunchtime ‘mini nuclear summit’ were (from left to right): Jorge Spitalnik of the International Nuclear Societies Council (INSC), Annick Carnino of Women in Nuclear (WIN), John Matter of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), Andrej Stritar of the European Nuclear Society (ENS), Jerry Barton, chair of the Austria Local section of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and Larry Foulke of the ANS.