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