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NESTet 2008

education and training

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY 4 -8 May 2008

This important European Nuclear Society (ENS) conference is dedicated to networking in nuclear education and training across the fields of engineering, science and technology.

An OECD study in 2000, ‘Nuclear Education and Training: Cause for Concern?’ recommended the following:

  • Governments have a strategic role to play in energy planning. Governments should contribute to, if not take responsibility for, integrated planning to ensure that necessary human resources are available. There should also be adequate resources for vibrant nuclear research and development programmes including modernisation of facilities;

  • The provision of basic and attractive educational programmes at university level is among the challenges of revitalising nuclear education;

  • Rigorous training programmes are needed to meet specific needs and exciting research projects should also be developed to attract quality students and employees to research institutes;

  • Industry, research institutes and universities need to work together to better co-ordinate efforts to encourage the younger generation and develop and promote a programme of collaboration in nuclear education and training. There should also be mechanisms for sharing best practices in promoting nuclear courses.

    The world is responding. From the Americas to Europe and Asia networks have been established to maintain nuclear knowledge and to ensure there is a suitably qualified nuclear workforce for the future.

    NESTet 2008 is designed to facilitate an exchange of information, collaboration and the sharing of best practices in nuclear education and training in engineering science and technology.

Nestet press release
Youn Generation Reporter