ROSATOM took part in the Nuclear Power Week in Brazil where it demonstrated its technologies to foreign partners and signed an important agreement on nuclear education with Latin American colleagues.
The nuclear power weeks are one of the largest specialized science and practice events of Brazil. The participants are senior students and post graduates who study nuclear power engineering in universities of the state of Rio de Janeiro, experts from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, representatives of sectoral governmental bodies, including the National Nuclear Power Commission, as well as top managers of the largest players of the energy sector of Brazil.
In frames of the main program, Ivan Dybov, Vice President of Rusatom International Network JSC, delivered a lecture devoted to Russian nuclear technologies and possible application of ROSATOM experience in the Brazilian market. He pointed out, in particular, that ROSATOM’s capabilities were not limited only to nuclear construction in Brazil. This is a full-scale cooperation in the peaceful use of atomic energy, including a bilateral partnership in nuclear medicine, supplies of isotopes, cooperation in education and research, participation of Brazilian companies in supply chain for other international projects of ROSATOM.
Thermal and Nuclear run in parallel
Ivan Dybov also elaborated on experience of ROSATOM’s united engineering company NIAEP-ASE in parallel implementation of a large number of projects on construction of nuclear and thermal power facilities as well as capabilities of consultancy in project management. He especially mentioned the innovative technology Multi-D, which is applicable for designing management systems for projects and life cycles of not only Russian design NPPs but of any complex engineering facility comparable in scale with a NPP (thermal power plant, oil and gas facilities etc., including facility decommissioning projects). Ivan Dybov also described joint capabilities of NIAEP-ASE and NUKEM Technologies as regards the cooperation in building facilities for treatment, disposal and storage of radwaste and SNF.
During the Nuclear Power Week in Brazil there was one more lecturer from Russia, Mikhail Ternovykh. He is a representative of one of the leading universities of ROSATOM’s consortium of core universities, NRNU MEPHI where he is Senior Teacher at the Chair of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of Nuclear Reactors. He delivered a lecture on the international nuclear cooperation. Mikhail Ternovykh described MEPHI’s experience in educating the staff for nuclear industry, international research projects and the international experience in training foreign students in Russia, including in the National Research Nuclear University.
Scientific interaction
The Nuclear Power Week in Brazil included a signing ceremony of the nuclear power cooperation agreement between Rusatom International Network JSC and the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The document defines basics for implementation of joint projects in the field of science and education as well as potential business projects. The matter is the cooperation in a broad range of areas such as holding joint seminars, round-table sessions, lectures, participation of ROSATOM’s enterprises in ongoing and future research and commercial projects of the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro in the field of nuclear power, exchanges of students and scholarship programs, university’s student and expert visits to Russian nuclear facilities etc.
“We traditionally attach great attention to building up an affirmative interaction with scientific and educational establishments. It is not our first experience in working with Latin America universities. We have successfully cooperated with the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires for the second year already. This June students and experts from this university visited nuclear sector facilities in Russia. We are confident that the multi-year experience of ROSATOM, as well as the opportunities we offer in the framework of the agreement we are signing, will be in demand in Brazil,” Ivan Dybov, Vice President of Rusatom International Network JSC for Communications, said.
