Karine Herviou

Karine Herviou has been Deputy Director General of the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) since 2020, in charge of the Nuclear Safety Division. From 2017 to 2020 she was director of systems, new reactors and safety approaches within the IRSN's Nuclear Installation and System Safety Division. An atomic engineering graduate (INSTN), she joined IRSN in 1991 to take on several positions as an expert in nuclear safety and in emergency preparedness and management. During her career, she coordinated the safety assessment activities for the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor, as project manager. She also led the expertise of the complementary safety assessments carried out in France following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.