2022 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo Speaker

Luc Van Den Durpel, PhD

Founding Partner

Nuclear-21

Luc Van Den Durpel graduated in 1989 as civil engineer and nuclear engineer from the University of Ghent (Belgium) where he also obtained his PhD on nuclear energy systems analysis. He initially conducted research at the Nuclear Research Center in Belgium as nuclear engineer, operations manager for research reactors and program manager for advanced nuclear energy systems.

He joined the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris (France) in 1998 to conduct international studies on advanced nuclear energy systems and specifically advanced nuclear fuel cycle R&D and waste management.

Early 2002, he joined US-DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL, US) in the context of Generation-IV and specifically nuclear energy system scenarios.

Since March 2009, he became Scientific Director and International Expert at AREVA NC’s Corporate Research and Innovation Directorate and since October 2011, he became Vice-President Strategic Analysis and Technology Prospective at AREVA’s Corporate R&D.

After leaving AREVA in March 2015, he launched the expert cabinet Nuclear-21 supporting governments, utilities, industry, regulators, waste agencies and R&D-laboratories in nuclear science and technology decisioneering. His personal interests are focused on the technical and financial challenges in transitioning towards sustainable energy systems including, especially in the nuclear field, the positioning of nuclear energy, international development and the internationalisation of the nuclear fuel cycle.

He is member of the Scientific Council of the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et Energie Alternatives (CEA, France) and Board member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) next to executive committee member in various organisations and learning societies.