 Both moves are a response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.Monique Sené is a nuclear physicist and one of the co-founders of the "Groupement des scientifiques pour l'information sur l'énergie nucléaire" (GSIEN) (Association of Scientists for Information on Nuclear Energy) and its first president.As of March 2011, she was Honorary Research Director at the National Centre for Scientific Research and president of GSIEN.