IAEA elevates Rosatom Technical Academy’s Collaborating Centre status

Rosatom Technical Academy and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) signed an agreement to extend the Academy’s status as an IAEA Collaborating Centre in nuclear knowledge management and human resources development. The Academy has become the first and the only IAEA Collaborating Centre for nuclear knowledge management and human resources development in five programmatic areas, including a new area of small modular reactors (SMR).

The Agreement was signed on the sideline of the first International Conference on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and their Applications held in Vienna, Austria, from 21 to 25 October 2024.  Yuri Seleznev, Rector of Rosatom Technical Academy; Mikhail Chudakov and Najat Mokhtar, Deputy Director Generals, and Lydie Evrard, Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security of IAEA signed the agreement.

Under the Agreement, Rosatom Technical Academy will enhance cooperation with the IAEA in nuclear energy, nuclear security, nuclear sciences, and applications, and expand its areas of collaboration to small modular reactors, medical physics, and radiopharmaceutical.

“The expansion of programmatic areas of collaboration with the IAEA is, first of all, the recognition of the highest competencies of Russia in the development, design, and construction of small modular reactors and the development of nuclear medicine. Moreover, it is another evidence of the IAEA’s credibility in the programs implemented by Rosatom Technical Academy in the field of knowledge management and human resources development,” commented Yuri Seleznev, Rector of Rosatom Technical Academy.

Rosatom Technical Academy is a modern Centre of Excellence for nuclear industry professionals. The Academy provides professional retraining of managers and specialists of the nuclear power engineering and nuclear industry, certification of personnel, as well as scientific and methodological support to ROSATOM’s organizations in the field of ensuring the safe use of atomic energy, supervision, state security, and operational and supporting processes. As an IAEA Collaborating Centre since 2019, Rosatom Technical Academy has been organizing schools, workshops, and training courses for specialists from countries embarking on nuclear power programs. In the last 4 years, 1410 people from 61 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America have been trained.

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