Dr. Alejandro Zurita (Barcelona, 1955) is a nuclear engineer, who got a Ph.D. in nuclear safety at the TU Hannover and was nuclear safety inspector at the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council. At the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) he was head of safety, chairman of the Reactor Safety Committee at the High Flux Reactor in the Netherlands, and principal administrator in nuclear safety and fusion research. Recently, he was head of the International Nuclear -fusion and fission- Research Cooperation between 2008 and 2016, and Minister Counsellor on science, technology, and innovation of the European Union in Brazil between 2016 and 2020.
More than support for the candidates, it seems that voters’ rejection of Bolsonaro or Lula will decide the presidential elections. A ‘country-continent’ with 215 million inhabitants, twice the size of the European Union and the leading power in Latin America. This is Brazil, a federal republic with a presidential system made up of 26 states…
The nuclear safety standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) do not contain guidance or recommendations in the context of warlike scenarios. Since the beginning of the war last February, several Ukrainian nuclear facilities have suffered or are suffering from the effects of military operations taking place in their vicinity. Such operations have taken…
