Lars Gunnar Larsson (born 1940), often called Lars G Larsson,
Licenciate of Technology and member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, is a
Swedish
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nuclear safety
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expert and former manager of the
nuclear reactor safety department of the
EBRD.
In 2014, along with the
Russian scientist
Ashot Sarkisov, Larsson received the
Global Energy Prize
The Global Energy Prize is an international award in the field of energy industry which is given for ''"outstanding scientific research and scientific-technical developments in the field of energy which promote greater efficiency and environmental ...
, an award presented yearly in
Saint Petersburg for technological and scientific achievements within the field of energy. They were awarded the prize for their work with regard to nuclear safety and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. In particular, Larsson has worked in the
Murmansk area with disposal of decommissioned
nuclear submarines.
Larsson was Sweden’s
technical attaché to
Washington, D.C., by the time of the
Three Mile Island accident and is a former manager of a division of the Swedish nuclear technology agency and a former environment and energy policy manager of the Swedish National Federation of Industry. Between 1997 and 2000, he was the manager of the nuclear reactor safety department of the EBRD, and subsequently he managed the bilateral Swedish nuclear safety aid to
Eastern Europe. He works as a consultant in the firm ''SiP Nuclear Consulting AB''.
References
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Living people
1940 births
Swedish engineers
Swedish nuclear physicists