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 Pablo Adelfang is a Nuclear Chemist from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1974). He is at present, Leader of the Research Reactors (RRs) Unit and Cross-Cutting Co-ordinator for RRs in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Before joining the IAEA in 2003, he worked for 23 years for the Argentine National Commission of Atomic Energy (CNEA), where he served as Head of the Department of Nuclear Fuels and Deputy Director of the Constituyentes Atomic Centre.
At CNEA Adelfang led the Projects for Development of High Density Fuels for RRs and the installation of the Laboratory for Post irradiation Examinations. During his last decade with CNEA (1993-2003), he conducted the development, irradiation and post-irradiation examination of the first Argentine experiment on (U,Pu)O2 MOX fuel, the first full post-irradiation examination in hot cells of a RR fuel element and the successful qualification of silicide type fuel elements for RRs. Adelfang was also responsible for the Argentine participation in the Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR) programme and for the Argentine contribution in the international effort to develop very high density research reactor fuel based on U-Mo alloys. He conducted the CNEA team that developed the Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) targets, used to convert the production of 99Mo from Highly Enriched Uranium to LEU in Argentina (first country that converted its domestic production of 99Mo from HEU to LEU).
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