Rudolf Rometsch
Rudolf Rometsch (born November 9, 1917 in Basel , † July 7, 1997 in Grindelwald ) was a Swiss chemist who worked in the nuclear industry.
Rometsch was born the son of an official. He studied physical chemistry and received his doctorate in 1943 at the University of Basel with studies on optically active diphenyl compounds . After 1945 he set up a laboratory for radioisotopes for the pharmaceutical company Ciba and worked for a time at the ETH Zurich. In 1959 he was appointed head of the research department at Eurochemic in Mol , Belgium . From 1964 to 1969 he was the managing director of the reprocessing plant . He then went to Vienna as Deputy General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency . As head of the main department for security measures and inspection, he played a key role in setting up the Safeguard inspection control system. From 1978 to 1988 he was President of the National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Nagra) .
Publications
- Nuclear Waste Management Switzerland (1983)
- Repositories and time scales of geological history (1988)
literature
- Rometsch, Rudolf . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie Vol. 8. 2nd revised and expanded edition, KG Saur, Munich 2007, p. 517, restricted preview in the Google book search
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Rometsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rudolf Rometsch in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- “There are always plutonium losses” , Spiegel interview with Rudolf Rometsch, Der Spiegel , December 20, 1976
Individual evidence
- ^ Rometsch, Rudolf . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie Vol. 8, p. 517.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rometsch, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1997 |
| Place of death | Grindelwald |