Title: Training and continuing education for quality management and conformity assessment staff for nuclear facilities

Authors: Vladimir V. Kozlov, Pavel V. Kozlov, Eugene A. Pivnenko

Addresses: Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, Bolshaya Ordynka Street, 24, 119017 Moscow, Russia. ' Central Institute for Advanced Studies of Rosatom, Obninsk, Kurchatova Street, 21, 249031 Kaluga Region, Russia. ' Central Institute for Advanced Studies of Rosatom, Obninsk, Kurchatova Street, 21, 249031 Kaluga Region, Russia

Abstract: Highly qualified staff have always been in strong demand. This also applies to the nuclear industry, especially in its rapid development. Quality assurance as a mechanism to ensure a comprehensive security sector is a priority. Training, retraining and skills development for the management, maintenance and quality assurance for nuclear facilities is a separate system task. The successful delivery of such a dedicated and centralised training and staff development in quality can only be done systematically. Such a system is being created by NPP Construction Quality Management Division of State Atomic Energy Corporation |Rosatom|. To implement the key steps involved in creating a system of industry-specialised organisations such as Central Institute for Continuing Education and Training (CICE&T), Obninsk, as well as leading experts in the field of security, management and quality control in the nuclear industry.

Keywords: training; continuing education; quality management; conformity assessment; nuclear energy; nuclear power; Rosatom; quality assurance; nuclear security; nuclear power plants; NPP; nuclear management; nuclear knowledge management; quality control.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNKM.2011.042005

International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management, 2011 Vol.5 No.3, pp.290 - 294

Published online: 18 Feb 2015 *

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