The first-of-its-kind "School for Radioactive Waste Management" was organized at the end of last week by the State Enterprise "Radioactive Waste" (SE RW) and the Nuclear Competence Center (NCC), the state enterprise reported to BTA. A total of seventeen students and three teachers from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and the Technical University – Sofia participated in the school. The initiative is aimed at students with relevant majors from both institutions and is part of the implementation of the National Strategy for Human Resources Development in the Nuclear Field.
"What we presented to the students is interesting to them, and I hope we have aroused their interest in radioactive waste (RW) management and decommissioning, and I sincerely believe that some of them will choose to develop their careers in the nuclear field," said Sergey Tsochev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SE RW and moderator of the forum, in an interview with BTA. According to him, regardless of where a nuclear energy expert works, they should be familiar with the topics of RW and decommissioning.
"For the first time, we are holding this school at the new Decommissioning Information Center. Both the students and the teachers are very satisfied, and we are also pleased. We are ready to continue the school from here on," Tsochev added.
According to DIMITAR STOYANOV, representative of the ANR, the "RW School" is one of the tools the Center is developing to facilitate the process of building capacity, communities, and attractiveness for working in the nuclear sector.
During the two-day theoretical part of the event, experts from the Enterprise presented in-depth presentations to the students on topics such as types, classification, and approaches to radioactive waste management; goals, activities, challenges, and experience of others in the decommissioning process; radiochemistry and radionuclide control; underground research laboratories; the National RW Repository; the Unified Information Model; and "live data" in the decommissioning process, among others.
The students also visited some of the facilities of SE RW at the "Kozloduy" site, including the Turbine Hall, Unit Control Panel – 2, the Measurement and Release from Control System, the Command Room of the Size Reduction and Decontamination Workshop, the radiochemistry laboratory, as well as the National RW Repository.
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"What we presented to the students is interesting to them, and I hope we have aroused their interest in radioactive waste (RW) management and decommissioning, and I sincerely believe that some of them will choose to develop their careers in the nuclear field," said Sergey Tsochev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SE RW and moderator of the forum, in an interview with BTA. According to him, regardless of where a nuclear energy expert works, they should be familiar with the topics of RW and decommissioning.
"For the first time, we are holding this school at the new Decommissioning Information Center. Both the students and the teachers are very satisfied, and we are also pleased. We are ready to continue the school from here on," Tsochev added.
According to DIMITAR STOYANOV, representative of the ANR, the "RW School" is one of the tools the Center is developing to facilitate the process of building capacity, communities, and attractiveness for working in the nuclear sector.
During the two-day theoretical part of the event, experts from the Enterprise presented in-depth presentations to the students on topics such as types, classification, and approaches to radioactive waste management; goals, activities, challenges, and experience of others in the decommissioning process; radiochemistry and radionuclide control; underground research laboratories; the National RW Repository; the Unified Information Model; and "live data" in the decommissioning process, among others.
The students also visited some of the facilities of SE RW at the "Kozloduy" site, including the Turbine Hall, Unit Control Panel – 2, the Measurement and Release from Control System, the Command Room of the Size Reduction and Decontamination Workshop, the radiochemistry laboratory, as well as the National RW Repository.
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