Roger Coates is an Honorary Fellow and former President of the Society. He worked for 30 years in the nuclear industry with BNFL, with responsibilities encompassing radiation protection, nuclear safety, conventional safety and environmental issues, retiring as Director of Environment, Health and Safety. He then spent 18 months with IAEA in Vienna. 

Roger has extensive radiological protection experience across the whole field of operations, environment and the underpinning standards and science. He was a Member of the ICRP Task Group on Occupational Exposure and a co-author of the resulting ICRP Publication 75.  He was the Founder Chairman of the World Nuclear Association’s Radiological Protection Working Group.

Roger is spending a very active semi-retirement. He was Congress President for the IRPA13 Glasgow Congress in 2012, and is currently IRPA Vice President. He is also a Non-Executive Director of LLW Repository Ltd, as well as being adviser to several UK nuclear organisations He is involved with IAEA as a consultant on the Iraq Decommissioning Project and the Nuclear Law Institute.

View the 2015 John Dunster Lecture below:

If you attended the conference and would like a copy of Roger Coates presentation, please email charlene.matthewman@srp-uk.org.