To continue its strides forward, AREVA has sought the counsel of prominent individuals from the community, creating its own Science and Ethics Commission.

Chaired by François Ewald, this commission is a think tank focused on public perceptions of science and technology, the role of the company in its environment and other important subjects.

Members of the AREVA Science and Ethics Commission:


• Roger Balian: Chairman of the Société française de Physique, member of the Académie des sciences

• Francis Balle: Professor at Université Paris II, former member of the Comité supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA - French audiovisual authority)

• Geneviève Barrier-Jacob: Professor Emeritus at the Faculté Necker-Enfants malades (children's hospital), former director of Samu (the French emergency medical service), and former member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee

• Christian de Boissieu: Economist

• Edouard Brezin: Chairman of the Académie des sciences

• Georges Charpak: Nobel Prize in Physics

• François Ewald: Professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) and Chairman of AREVA's Science and Ethics Commission

• Roland Masse: Member of the Académie des technologies, former chairman of the Office de Protection contre les Rayonnements Ionisants (French radiation protection agency)

• Michel Serres: science historian and member of the Académie française

• Alain Touraine: sociologist and department chair at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)

• Maurice Tubiana: former chairman of the Académie de médecine, member of the Académie des sciences, where he chairs the Environment Committee, and chairman of the Centre Antoine-Béclère (hospital and medical care center)