Dr. Abel Julio GONZÁLEZ

Senior Advisor at Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ARN) of Argentina

Speaker

Abel Julio GONZÁLEZ is an Academician, full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires, the Argentine Academy of Environmental Sciences, the Argentine Academy of the Sea, and the International Academy of Nuclear Energy.

He currently serves as a Scientific Advisor to the Argentine Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ARN) and member of the Argentine delegation to the General Conference and Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He is also a member of several bodies, including: the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR); the Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA-OECD); the IAEA Commission of Safety Standards; the NEA-OECD Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP); the IAEA Task Force that oversees the discharge of wastewater from Fukushima Dai-ichi; and, the Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War, established by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 79/238, adopted on December 24, 2024.

His professional background includes serving as a member of the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), president of the National Nuclear Power Plant Company, and Director of the Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety at the IAEA. He also served as Vice-Chair of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) and as president of the 12th IRPA International Congress (IRPA12).

As an educator, he is currently a visiting professor for: the World Nuclear University (WNU) Summer Institute and its nuclear energy course; the Tsinghua University (People's Republic of China); the International School of Nuclear Law of the University of Montpellier and the OECD-NEA; the "Laboratory Zero" course at the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission; and for the postgraduate course on Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety—a program he founded, which is organized by the ARN and sponsored by the IAEA.

He shared in the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IAEA—with a diploma presented in Oslo on December 10, 2005—and has received several professional awards, including, in chronological order: 1990, IAEA Distinguished Service Award; 2000 and 2003, Morgan Award from the U.S. Health Physics Society; 2004, Lauriston S. Taylor Award from the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements; 2004, IAEA Special Service Award (Vienna, Austria); 2004, Sievert Award—the highest international honor in the field of radiation protection—from the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) at the IRPA XI Congress in Madrid, Spain; 2008, Marie Curie Award from the World Council of Nuclear Workers (WONUC); 2012, Academician Georgyi A. Zedgenidze Award and Medal (Russian Federation); 2015, Celso C. Papadopulos Award from the Argentine Radiation Protection Society (SAR); 2019, Service Recognition Award from the Argentine Government; 2022, Diploma of Recognition for contributions to the scientific assessments of UNSCEAR; 2022, Dan J. Beninson Award from the Latin American and Caribbean Radiation Protection Federation; 2022, *Acta Probant Se Ipsa* (from the Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russia); 2023, Award from the Radiological and Nuclear Risk Division of the Argentine Federal Police; 2023, Qian Sanqiang Forum (China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China); and 2023, Konex Platinum Award and Diploma of Merit from the Konex Foundation (Argentina).

He is a founding member of the Argentine Society for Radiation Protection (SAR) and an honorary member of the Spanish Society for Radiation Protection (SEPR).