Rosatom took part in the World Nuclear University's Summer Institute, an international educational program aimed at developing the professional skills of nuclear workers from different countries. The SI 2025 was hosted by Shanghai and Xian, China. Six employees of Russian nuclear industry companies completed the program (TENEX, TVEL, Rosatom Automated Control Systems (RASU) and others).
The pool of speakers
included Rosatom Special Representative for International Projects Lyudmila
Zalimskaya, Director of Rosatom East Asia Artem Goncharuk, Director of Center
for Competences Excellence for International Business of the Rosatom Corporate Academy
Ekaterina Khairullina and others. In particular, Anton Goncharuk has presented
Generation IV innovative reactor technologies supporting the concept of closed
nuclear fuel cycle (NFC – technological sequence covering all stages of nuclear
fuel transformation). Advanced solutions for the final stage of the NFC have
been also touched upon by Lyudmila Zalimskaya.
The SI 2025 agenda covered technical tours to Chinese nuclear facilities. Fellows visited the Qinshan and Fangjiashan nuclear power plants, Shanghai Electric, the enrichment plant in the Hanzhong, and the CNNC-led nuclear fuel plant in Jianzhong.
Grigory Chikantsev, Director of Product Development Department in the Electrical Equipment Division of RASU, commented: “The program was a unique opportunity for me to develop key competencies for working in an international format. Particularly valuable was the immersion in a multicultural environment, rethinking approaches to team management and the opportunity to directly discuss global nuclear industry trends with leading international experts. Such a powerful charge of knowledge and motivation, exchange of experience, opens up new prospects for professional growth and the implementation of large-scale Rosatom projects globally.”
The World Nuclear
University's Summer Institute is an immersive 270-hour international
educational program aimed at developing leadership and communication
skills. The program is held annually in different countries on a regional
rotation principle. It includes lectures, practical classes, trips to
industrial facilities and nuclear industry facilities, team projects. The
program covers such topics as global energy, the development of nuclear power
and nuclear innovation technologies, nuclear safety, etc. The mentors and
speakers are heads of the world's leading nuclear companies. The SI accepts
about 70 participants annually. Over the entire existence of the project, more
than 1,200 fellows from 90 countries have graduated.
According to the classification adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the IV generation of nuclear power systems involves the use of various technologies that are united by a common result – higher fuel efficiency, increased safety, energy efficiency, reduction of spent nuclear fuel, etc.
