Benoît Bazire has appointed CEO of AREVA TA
– By Stephen Heiser –
At its May meeting, the AREVA TA Board of Directors appointed Benoît BAZIRE to the position of CEO of AREVA TA.
AREVA TA, as a business unit of AREVA, proposes its customers solutions (vital systems, engineering, training, services) to fit with high requirements of safety and availability of complex industrial programs in defense, energy, aeronautics, transportation and industry.
Benoît BAZIRE is a graduate of the École Polytechnique, École Na-tionale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées, École Nationale d’Administration, and Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale. He began his career in 1978 in France’s department of naval constructions, before joining the ministry of defense in 1983.
He occupied a number of posts at Thomson-CSF from 1988 to 1993, when he became head of cabinet for the Delegate General of Armament. He was then Director General of Services for the Picardie region from 1995 to 1998, at which time he joined the Thales group to develop its optronics and optics activi-ties. In 2005, he became head of the Qioptiq group, the optics specialist located in Europe, Asia and the USA.
AREVA TA offers customers in defense, transportation, research and industry:
» delivery of nuclear propulsion systems,
» operation of and support for land-based and onboard nuclear facilities,
» engineering for research and testing tools and complex industrial assembly systems,
» expertise and services related to Safety, Human Factors and Integrated Logistical Support,
» delivery of monitoring and safety instrumentation and control systems.
Last October AREVA TA won a contract to design a low and medium level waste disposal center in Lithuania. Following an international request for proposals, the team of companies headed up by AREVA TA was awarded the contract to design a near surface repository for low and intermediate level radioactive waste close to the Ignalina nuclear power plant site in Lithuania.
The project, funded primarily by the EBRD, includes the design studies for the repository and on-site support during construction. The repository will receive low and intermediate level operational radwaste and radwaste from the dismantling of the Lithuanian power plant, designing of which has already begun.
As part of AREVA's Reactors and Services division, AREVA TA has extensive experience in the design of such facilities for radioactive waste, or in providing support to projects for their design and construction.