Russian lecture educates Vietnam’s nuclear students

The lecture was delivered by Russian expert A. Khrobostov, director of the Institute for Nuclear Energy and Technical Physics of the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. Alekseev. He spoke on the modern trends of nuclear power plans (NPP) and developments of Russian safety technologies after the incident at Fukushima Daiichi. More than 100 students of the Nuclear Power faculty gathered for the speech.

The event was organised by the Russia’s State Nuclear Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) in partnership with the Russian university and was hosted by Hanoi’s Electric Power University.

The Russian NPP safety programme started long before the Fukushima accident and is furthering its development through lessons learned through the accident.

ROSATOM is making great efforts to develop nuclear human resources in Vietnam and localisation of production. Recently, representatives of scientific and research organisations and relevant government bodies paid a visit to Atomenergoproekt JSC in Moscow where they were introduced to NPP projects using VVER technology, characteristics of security systems using VVER technology and those using post-Fukushima engineering solutions.

The Vietnamese specialists were also introduced to state-of-the-art designs used by the company. Vietnam’s representatives attended demonstrations of a wide range of technologies and engineering solutions both in use today and those not yet applied.

ROSATOM brings together more than 250 enterprises and scientific institutions including all of Russia’s civil nuclear companies, nuclear weapons complexes, research organisations and its nuclear-propelled fleet. The group is Russia’s largest utility, producing more than 40 per cent of electricity for the country’s European side.