Jérôme Estrade

Jérôme Estrade is Assistant Director for the management of the basic nuclear installation (INB) no. 67 and head of the Reactor Division

Holding a degree in nuclear engineering degree and a master’s degree in fundamental physics, he has more than 25 years of experience in research reactors as operations manager at CEA (JHR, CABRI, Phebus, Orphée and Osiris).

He is also an expert in safety and participates to different international peer reviews including International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) missions. He has acquired considerable expertise in the design and construction of test devices for material and fuel programmes, with more than 15 years’ experience of managing such programmes.

Jérôme Estrade has also been president of the French Association of Research Reactors (CER – Club d’Exploitants des Réacteurs de Recherche) from 2010 to 2017 and a member of the Research Reactor Operators Group of the European Atomic Energy Society since 2002. He has led a number of international expert groups on research reactors (peer reviews, IAEA assignments, etc.).