Well no sooner than I have returned from Africa and I am on a plane again. - sometimes I wonder why I rent the flat at all!
Anyway, Austrian Airlines had the pleasure of my company on Sunday (FRA-VIE) and today I was back again for a trip (A320) to Paris. I have an all day meeting tomorrow at the Ecole Superiere des Mines ( Mining School) where I sit on a committee looking at the long term monitoring and management issues of the remediated French uranium mining sites.They mined uranium here in France for a long time after 1945 and they are certainly the largest uses of nuclear power in Europe ( well maybe Estonia is a bit bigger). Anyway they packed up some years ago and the site were all cleaned up. I am an "international expert" invited to sit on this large committee of stakeholders from the mining company, government agencies and community groups looking at the success of the operation and where to go from here.
the main plenary group meets every two months and I am an international observer on that committee ; there is a long term issues technical working group where I am a full member; but again they meet every two months or so and we cannot afford it so I will be here for 3-4 meetings only over a year..
Dinner at a local brasserie was OK with onion soup and an entrecote au poivre - with a red wine and calvados to finish.....................
Anyway the school is on the Boulevard St. Michel (memories of 1968) at the Place Luxembourg and my hotel is almost opposite in Rue Gay Lussac (A name for chemists).
Pictures will follow once I am back in Vienna.
I will have to consult with other bloggers as I am having problems with inserting pictures - and BLOGS need pictures as the words are sooooo boring on their own - well on this site.
anyway
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