Interviews
14 April 2025
3 questions for Olivier Bard, General Delegate of GIFEN
With extensive experience in the French nuclear industry, Olivier Bard, General Delegate of GIFEN, is particularly focused on strengthening the sector’s operational performance, skills, and industrial capabilities to support its development both in France and internationally. Olivier Bard has held...
16 December 2024
Immersion in the new radiopharmacy of the GIP Cyceron in Caen, France 🎥
As part of the extension of its cleanroom, the Cyceron biomedical imaging platform in Caen, France, has chosen Lemer Pax radiation protection equipment for its new radiopharmacy laboratory. At the cutting edge of technology, this radiopharmacy plays a central role...
10 October 2023
3 questions for … Cécile Arbouille, Senior Executive Advisor, Nuclear Generation Division / EDF
We asked Cécile Arbouille, Delegate to the Nuclear Generation Division at EDF, 3 questions. In charge of Industrial Policy and Supplier Relations, she has a central role to play in the challenge of ensuring the secure, available and cost-effective operation of France’s fleet of nuclear power plants.
26 April 2022
Optimal radiation protection, a daily requirement for interventional cardiologists
Professor Patrice Guérin, University Professor and Medical Practitioner at the University Hospital of Nantes, was the guest on the Mag GRCI La Matinale show, during the 28th GRCI congress (Groupe de Réflexion sur la Cardiologie Interventionnelle), which was held last...
17 November 2021
3 questions to Christophe Béhar, president of the French Nuclear Suppliers Association (GIFE)
Nuclear power is essential to meet the global energy demand. The current energy development director of the FAYAT group and president of the French Nuclear Suppliers Association (GIFE) is a man belonging to the limited circle of nuclear experts. A...
17 June 2021
Professor Michel Haïssaguerre: convinced user of the cabin as a means of optimum radiation protection in cathlabs
During the latest edition of the CNCH (the National college of hospital Cardiologists), Professor Michel Haïssaguerre spoke to warn, once again, practitioners of the vital need for increased radiation protection in cathlabs. Director of the Liryc, the Electrophysiology and Heart...
6 February 2020
3 questions for Jean-Sylvain Chavanne, new Director of the Western France Cyber Defence Agency of the CEIS
The Security Operations Center (SOC) based in Brest is CEIS’* Cyber Risk Management solution to support small and midsize businesses in the area of digital security and cyber attacks. It offers attack detection and security management based on the level...
15 January 2020
Retrospective 2019
Ongoing projects, success stories, technological innovations, events and business news… our digital retrospective takes a look back at the highlights of the past year!
24 October 2019
3 questions to Alexandre Hamlyn, co-founder of Coriolis Composites
From Start-up to industrial SME, Coriolis Composites is a remarkable success story. The company, specialised in the manufacture of robotic cells and software for the production of composite parts, now employs 170 persons and is entering the market of non...
26 July 2019
3 questions for Karen Chamoulaud, RPO at the Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien
The guardian angel of nuclear medicine services is playing an increasingly important role The use of ionising radiation has diversified, with the emergence of new procedures, and the function of RPO, radiation protection officer, is adapting to this change. With...
21 February 2019
3 questions for Alexandre Milochévitch, Head of Bessé Nuclear Solutions®
Bessé – 100 million euros in revenue, 450 employees in Nantes, Paris and London – is a family business, founded 60 years ago. The first years were marked by a close partnership with the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyards, in the...
2 January 2019
3 questions to Jean-François Chatal, pioneer of Nuclear Medicine in France
Professor Jean-François Chatal is former director of the nuclear medicine department at Nantes University Hospital, as well as the city’s Cancer Centre. He and his team were responsible for the installation of a high energy/high intensity cyclotron known as Aronax,...
16 October 2018
3 questions to Philippe Gervais, PhD in radiopharmacy, international expert with the CEA
Under the aegis of the CAor and Lotus collaborative projects, developed at the molecular and functional imaging centre at Frédéric Joliot Hospital (SHFJ) in Orsay, Lemer Pax has designed, manufactured and delivered four radiosynthesis cells for the CEA, dedicated to...
1 April 2018
3 questions to Yann Valy, interventional cardiologist at the La Rochelle Hospital
With emergencies, weekly scheduled activities, simple and complex angioplasty procedures, with rotablation and intracoronary imaging, the radiation risks are increasing, and since I started using the booth, my exposure doses have dropped significantly.
5 December 2015
4 questions to Didier Besnard, Executive Director of CEA Tech
In 2013, Pierre-Marie Lemer was happy to see CEA Tech move to Nantes. Since then, the two companies have routinely worked together. In late 2015, Lemer Pax and CEA Tech entered into a collaboration agreement based on a disruptive technology...
16 June 2015
4 questions to Nicolas Dufourcq, General Manager of Bpifrance
Two years after its creation, Bpifrance is asserting its role as a public tool for financing and developing companies. In partnership with the French regions and private actors, industry, banks and investors, Bpifrance is a major player supporting France’s state...
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