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Experience and opportunities of cooperation on nuclear

education and training to support embarking countries

Andrey N. Kosilov

National Research Nuclear University - MEPhI (NRNU-MEPhI), Moscow, Russian Federation

Technical Meeting

on

Cooperation for Human

Resource Development

among Embarking and

Experienced Countries

4 to 6 June 2013

Vienna, Austria

Contents

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1. Introduction

2. NRNU “MEPhI” at a Glance

3. The Association of Higher Educational

Universities

4. International co-operation in Nuclear

Education and Training

5. Co-operation with the IAEA

6. Further directions to support embarking

countries

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Introduction

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Nuclear Power in Russia

Белоярская

Балаковская

Курская

Калининская

Кольская

Ленинградская

Смоленская

Билибинская

Волгодонская

Нововоронежская

10 NPP (31

units) = 23242

MW (el)

16% of electricity

production.

Russia is to increase

the power of nuclear

power plans from 23.5

GW in 2006 to 53.2 GW

in 2020.

Development of

fundamental

physics

Closed fuel cycle

+ fast reactors

+ advanced VVER

2020

Technological

leadership

Fusion power

technology/

ITER

2040

Mastering advanced

power technology

Mastering VVER

technology

2012

Competing in the

world power market

Nuclear Power in Russia (R&D horizons)

• Short term 1

• Middle term 2

• Long term 3

• Strategy 4

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Nuclear Education in Russia

The MEPhI mission is to provide together with Rosatom high level of human resources for national nuclear industry and international partners

Main challenges:

• human resource development for Russian nuclear renaissance (engineering, technology, research)

• human resource development to support Rosatom international activity

• integration into the world system of nuclear education

• restructuring of higher education system in the Russian Federation: two level study (master and bachelor degrees), new national educational standards for higher education

• negative demographic trends and unpopularity of technical education among young people

Presidential Decision:

• To create National Research Nuclear University MEPhI as an educational and research holding for nuclear industry inside and outside the Russian Federation

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Restructuring of Russian System of Higher Education

Main objective of National Research Universities – to ensure innovation development of the Russia economy through integration of education, science and production.

2 National Universities – Moscow State University and S-Petersburg State University

29 National Research Universities were organized in 2008-2010

9 Federal Universities were organized in 2006-2011

Association of Russian Nuclear Universities was established in 2011 (14 universities). NRNU MEPhI is the head of the Association.

NRNU “MEPhI” at a Glance

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Central Federal District

Urals Federal District

Volga Federal District

Siberian Federal District Southern Federal District

National Research Nuclear University «MEPhI» - territorially dispersed educational and research holding for Russian nuclear industry inside

and outside the Russian Federation

MEPhI combines of 12 Higher Education Institutions and 9

colleges:

Over 38 thousand students;

over 1500 professors and associated professors,

60 main directions in Higher Professional Education

45 main directions in Secondary Professional Education

North Eastern Federal District

MEPhI priority is staff training and retraining for: • Nuclear Energy Complex (10 NPP, 25 facilities), • Nuclear Defense Complex (VNIIEF, VNIITF, more than 20 facilities) • Nuclear Research Complex (NRC «Kurchatov Insitute», 46 Research Institutes) • Nuclear and Radiation Safety Complex (Production Plant «Mayak», Siberian Chemical Plant, 17 facilities).

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The number of students:

more than 38 000

Characteristics of the NRNU - MEPhI

Postgraduate students (PhD):

more than 1000

Staff: Professors and associate professors –

over 1500

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Integration of

R&D and education

in universities

High quality of

education

Introduction of

developments into

production process

Integration of science, education and training is the main prerequisite for HR efficient training and retraining

MEPhI, Moscow

VITI, Volgodonsk IATE, Obninsk

STI, Seversk

Scientific-educational cluster NRNU MEPhI for nuclear engineering training

Nuclear Energy Complex

(10 NPP, 25 facilities)

Nuclear Research Complex

(46 Research Institutes)

Nuclear and Radiation Safety Complex

(Production Plant «Mayak», Siberian Chemical Plant, 17

facilities) 12

DITI, Dimitrovgrad

NRNU MEHhI, Moscow

IATE NRNU Mephi, Obninsk DITI, Dimitrovgrad

Scientific-educational cluster for nuclear R&D training

SRC RF “IPPE” PLC “VNIIM”

SRC RF “TRINITY”

PLC “SRC NIIAR”

OJSC

NIKIET

RFNC -

VNIITF RFNC -

VNIIEF

NRC “Kurchatov

Institute”

NRNU Mephi has provided 64 scientific-research projects for implementation in

framework of FTP

«New generation nuclear energy technologies» 13

MEPhI is Russian Nuclear Education Center

(more than 40 programs)

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Over 150 modern laboratories and educational-research centers, research nuclear reactor and 5 subcritical assemblies are available for education and training.

Nuclear reactors and power installations

Nuclear power plants

Radiation safety of human and the environment Security and non-proliferation of nuclear materials

Physical protection, control and accounting of nuclear materials

Material science and technology of new materials

Nuclear and particle physics

Theoretical physics

Plasma physics

Physics of kinetic phenomena

Applied mathematics

Medical physics

Electronics and automation in physical facilities

Device and methods of for quality control and diagnostics

Ecology

and others

Modern MEPhI Research & Educational Centers and

Laboratories

• Nuclear reactor center

• Radiation material science and radiation protection center

• Physical protection, control and accounting of nuclear materials center

• Radiation accelerator center

• Neutrino Lab

• Nuclear electronics center

• Carbon fiber and carbon-composite material center

• Superconductivity center

• Nanosystems, nanomaterials and

nanotechnologies center

• Laser technological center etc.

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MEPhI is Training and Retraining Center

(more than 200 programs at MEPhI regional branches)

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Modern nuclear installations

Safety of the nuclear fuel cycle

Nuclear and radiation safety

Culture of nuclear material management

Technological aspects of nuclear non-proliferation

Environmental protection

Methods of reactor material diagnostics

Methods for uranium and nonuranium isotopes separations

Reliability of nuclear reactors and risk management

Applied spectrometry of nuclear radiation

Systems of the mathematical support of the exploitation of VVER type reactors

Quality control in nuclear industry

Nuclear physics methods in nanotechnologies

Mass-spectrometric methods of isotope and element analysis

others

MEPhI is Postgraduate Center

(more than 30 directions)

• Nuclear power installations (design, exploitation and decommission)

• Radiation safety of human and the environment • Thermal physics • High energy physics • Plasma physics • Laser physics • Semiconductor physics • Nuclear and particle physics • Solid state electronics • Micro- and nanoelectronics • Theoretical physics • Mathematical physics • Medical physics • Ecology etc.

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MEPhI coordinates postgraduate study activity at “Rosatom” research and industrial centers.

* ISI of Web Knowledge, SCOPUS

Ranking of the NRNU MEPhI in 2012

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The NRNU MEPhI enters the top 250 higher educational institutions by the International ranking of Times Higher Education of World University Ranking. Criteria “citations” for the NRNU MEPhI was marked as the highest.

Citations

According to the National Training Foundation ranking carried out at the commission

of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation the NRNU MEPhI

heads the list. Also the NRNU MEPhI got the highest estimate for “Scientific Research

Activity”.

The NRNU MEPhI occupies a 7-th position among 100 higher educational institutions by the ranking of Russian agency “Expert RA”.

№

Higher

educational

institution

Number of

publications

Number of

citation

Average

citation H -index

1 MSU 9525 19578 2, 06 37

2 SPtSU 9800 40978 4,18 56

3 NRNU MEPhI 5782 34816 6,02 67

Material Science

Nuclear Engineering Accelerators

• A.A. Bochvar VNIINM

• NRC Kurchatov

Institute

• A.I. Leypunsky IPPE,

• RIAR

• N.A. Dollezhal NIKIET

• MSZ ELEMASH

• MMZ CHMZ

• NII NFU LUCH

• D.V.Efremov NIIEFA

TRINITI

• NRC Kurchatov

Institute

• A.I. Leypunsky IPPE

• RIAR

• N.A. Dollezhal NIKIET

• ITEP

• NII NFU LUCH

• VNIIAES

• Gidropress, MAYAK,

• SCC

• N.L. Dukhov VNIIA

• JINR Dubna

• D.V.Efremov NIIEFA

• NRC Kurchatov Institute

• ITEP

• IHEP, Protvito

• VNIIEF, Sarov

• N.L. Dukhov VNIIA

• TRINITI

• PPCB SUKHOY

• P. N. Lebedev PI

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Research partners of the NRNU MEPhI in nuclear technologies

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The Association of Higher

Educational Universities

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«Consortium of ROSATOM State Nuclear

Energy Corporation Supporting Universities»

The Association consolidates the leading Russian universities, which train specialists for the nuclear power industry and research

in the field of nuclear physics and technology

1. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

www.mephi.ru MEPhI

2. Ivanovo State Power Engineering Institute

named after V.I. Lenin www.ispu.ru IPSEU

3. Moscow State University

of Civil Engineering (MGSU) www.mgsu.ru

MGSU

4. Moscow State Technical University named

after Bauman www.bmstu.ru BMSTU

5. National University of Science and

Technology "MISIS" www.misis.ru MISIS

6. National ResearchTomsk Polytechnic

University www.tpu.ru ТPU

7. National Research University "Moscow

Power Engineering Institute" www.mpei.ru

MPEI

8. Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University

n.a. R.E. Alekseev www.nntu.nnov.ru NSTU

9. Nizhny Novgorod State University n.a. N.I.

Lobachevskii www.unn.ru NSU

10. D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical

Technology of Russia www.muctr.ru MUCTR

11. St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University

www.spbstu.ru SPbSPU

12. Saint Petersburg State University www.spbu.ru

SPbU

13. Ural Federal University n.a. the first President

of Russia B.N. Yeltsin www.urfu.ru UrFU

14. Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime

and Inland Shipping www.spbuwc.ru SUMIS

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The Goals of the Consortium of Rosatom Supporting Universities

The development of fundamental and

applied scientific research

Experience exchange concerning

management models in educational,

training and scientific activity

The study and implementation of the best

practices of the world leading universities

The improvement of the legal and regulatory framework, managing the

relations in the sphere of education and science

Integration of the educational system of Rosatom supporting

universities in global education

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The development of a system of higher vocational, further vocational

and postgraduate education with the consideration of its international

competitiveness

The creation and implementation of educational, scientific, innovative,

cultural and other programs as well as priority projects

The Goals of the Consortium of Rosatom Supporting Universities:

The creation of resource centers

aimed at providing research,

educational and innovation activity

with a world class infrastructure

Implementation of programs aimed

at the integration of education and

scientific and innovation oriented

production activity

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Coordination of university activities for the purposes of facilitating innovation-driven growth and technological modernization of

Rosatom State Corporation in the following fields/specialties:

Heat Power Engineering and Thermal Engineering

Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering

Nuclear Power and Thermophysics

Nuclear Physics and Technologies

Power Engineering

Materials Science and Materials Engineering

Applied Physics

Electronics and Automatics of Nuclear Facilities

Nuclear Reactors and Materials

Nuclear Plants: Construction, Exploitation and Engineering

Isotope Separation Technologies and Nuclear Fuel

Engineering of Production Machines and Complexes Chemical technology of materials in modern power industry

Heat Power Engineering and Thermal Heating

Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering

Nuclear Power and Thermophysics

Nuclear Physics and Technologies

Power Engineering

Materials Science and Materials Engineering

Applied Physics 24

Main Activities and Scope

• Physical and mathematical

sciences

• Nuclear energy, power

engineering and electrical

technology

• Metallurgy, machinery and metal

working

• Electronic engineering, radio

technology and communication

• Automation and management

• Economics and management

• Information security

• IT and computer engineering

Ttraining Bachelors

Masters

Specialists

Post-graduates

PhD candidates

Design Curricula in further

vocational

education

Training means Lectures, seminars, training

courses, webinars,

conferences, etc.

in fields of

The Association of Higher Educational Institutions

«Consortium of Rosatom Supporting Universities»

• General physics and astronomy

• Nuclear physics

• Physicotechnical issues of nuclear energy.

• Physicochemistry and technology of

nonorganic materials

• IT, computer engineering and automation

• Medical physics and technology

• Information technology and electronics

• Production technology

• New materials and chemical products

• Fuel and nuclear energy

• Ecology and environment conservation

• Economics and management

• Information security

The Association conducts joint research work in

science and technology priority growth areas

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The Association of Universities «Consortium of Rosatom Supporting Universities» - a member of non-profit partnership of companies

taking part in nuclear innovation projects realisation

«The National Nuclear Innovation Consortium» NNIC

Leading managing companies such as:

• OJSC «Rosenergoatom»

• OJSC «TVEL»

• CJSC «Science and Innovations»

• OJSC «Techsnabexport»

• OJSC «Atomenergomash»

Most engaged scientific centres:

• FSBI R&D «Kurchatov Institute»

• FSUE «RFNC - VNIIEF»

• FSUE «RFNC-VNIITF» n.a. Е.I. Zababahin»

Social and professional organisations:

• Nuclear Society of Russia

• The Union of Scientific Engineering Public Organisations

The Association of Universities «Consortium of Rosatom Supporting Universities»

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International co-operation in

Nuclear Education and

Training

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Experiments ATLAS and

ALICE on Large Hadron

Collider (CERN)

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Integration into the International Research Projects

EXPERIMENTS IN

SYNCHRONOUS CENTER

DESY (GERMANY)

EXPERIMENTS STAR AND PHENIX IN BROOKHAVEN

NATIONAL LABORATORIES (USA)

EXPERIMENTS PAMELA AND ARINA (THE

RUSSIAN-ITALIAN PROJECT)

EXPERIMENTS THE - CORONAS-PHOTON

(THE RUSSIAN-EUROPEAN PROJECT)

ITER

International cooperation in nuclear education and Training

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Training & Retraining of foreign students and specialists in the field of nuclear engineering and hi-tech.

Cooperation with nuclear educational networks (MEPhI has agreement with ENEN and ANENT).

Cooperation with the foreign nuclear universities for development common master of research programs,

postgraduate training, curricula analysis and enhanced (MEPhI has agreement with more than 20 universities from

USA and Europe).

Participation at the IAEA activity and representation of the Russian Federation at the World Nuclear University. NRNU

MEPhI – IEAE Practical Arrangements.

Coordination of “Russian Universities Nuclear Consortium” activity.

The countries – importers of the Russian nuclear

technologies

Vietnam

China

India

Belarus

Armenia

Ukraine

Turkey

Egypt

Argentina

Kazakhstan

Hungary

Czechia

Slovakia

Jordan,

Bangladesh

and others

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Egypt

Vietnam

Jordan

Mongolia

Mongolia

Jordan

Vietnam

Egypt

Turkey

Kazakhstan Bangladesh

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2011 2012

State Corporation “Rosatom" - NRNU MEPhI Training of Workforce from Embarking Counties

The students more, than from 10 countries of presence of the State Corporation " Rosatom "

1200

2016

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MEPhI is International Center for Nuclear Education and Knowledge

Aims:

Aim of center creation is determined

by the necessity to solve the tasks in

the field of MEPhI international activity:

•Creation of system of continuous

personnel training for EvrAzES states

in the field of nuclear power

applications based on the international

standards;

•Development of educational service

export as the leaders in the world

educational market;

•Development of educational and

scientific contacts to IAEA, WNU,

ENEN, ANENT, biggest scientific

centers and universities of USA, EU

and Asia.

Directions of activities:

• Education. Transfer of

knowledge to new generation,

to new developing countries

and cooperation with the

nuclear education of leading

powers;

• Scientific enlightening

activity – students,

specialists, decision makers;

• Informational and analytical

work.

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Nuclear knowledge management IAEA Mission at MEPhI (January, 2010)

•The first NKM IAEA Mission at the Universities.

• 12 participants from 8 countries (the USA, France,

United Kingdom, Canada, Romania, Czech Republic,

Austria, Ukraine and IAEA).

• Objectives of the mission:

• To share experience and approaches in implementation of

nuclear education programmes in technical universities and

discuss the role of nuclear higher education in the development of

human resources within building a national infrastructure for

nuclear power and non-power applications.

• To identify the basic trends in nuclear education and knowledge

management needs to be addressed in order to improve

organizational performance

• To agree on the main assessment criteria to help identify

strengths and development areas in the technical university’s

overall KM strategy

• To develop recommendations to initiate and improve

programmes on nuclear education including knowledge

management to increase the organizations’ performance and

efficiency

The IAEA SSAC Training Course

The IAEA International Training Course on Implementation of State

System of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Materials was

successfully realized for 32 countries on the base of nuclear

educational-research center of MEPhI by international team of

lecturers from Russia, USA, France, Canada and others countries.

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Workshop: “A New Model for U.S.-Russian Nonproliferation and Antiterrorism Cooperation: The

Next Generation of Advances in Safeguards and Verification Technologies” (15-16 December, 2008).

Main goal: to discuss a “revolutionary technologies” that will change the way in which we think about safeguards: new methods and approaches to nuclear material control, accounting and detection.

33 participants (12 from USA

and 21 from Russia) from 16

organizations.

Moscow Center Carnegie Endowment,

National Research Nuclear University

“MEPhI”

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Rose Gottemoeller – U.S. Department of State,

Assistant Secretary for Verification, Compliance,

and Implementation

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Co-operation with the IAEA

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Practical Arrangements between the IAEA and the NRNU MEPhI

were signed in September 2012

Modalities of cooperation

• Collaboration in initiatives

and efforts in nuclear

education and training;

• Assistance in the

organization of scientific

visits and specialized

training courses;

• Collaboration in collecting

and preserving nuclear

information through the

Russian International

Nuclear Information System

(INIS) Center;

• Collaboration in the

development of innovative

and modern educational

technologies in nuclear

education;

• Support to IAEA expert

missions on HR and NKM;

• Facilitation of the provision

of facilities and staff for

fellowships.

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The Main Results (1)

• The educational laboratory

“Reactor Physics, Control,

and Safe Operation of NPP”

installed in Armenia,

Belarus and Ukraine (June

2013) for training of

students and retraining of

NPP staff;

• Reengineering of PC-based

simulator on “VVER-1000

Nuclear Reactor” to be

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The Main Results (2)

The Russian localization of the IAEA Cyber Learning Platform

CLP4NET installed in the NPNU MEPhI to support national and

international educational and training activities

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The Main Results (3)

• Support in the development

of the IAEA report on

Nuclear Engineering

Education: A Competence-

based Approach in

Curricula Development,

2013 – in print

• The Russian input to INIS

database in 2012 increased

in 2 times.

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IAEA-NRNU MEPhI Workshops in 2013

The role of computer-based educational

laboratories in Nuclear Engineering University

Programmes, 15-18 November 2013, Moscow,

Russian Federation

The role of International Nuclear Information

System (INIS) in supporting nuclear education and

industry: regional cooperation and knowledge

preservation, 22-24 October 2013, Moscow, Russian

Federation

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Your participation

is very welcome!

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Further directions to support

embarking countries

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Bilateral and Regional Cooperation

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• Cooperation with foreign nuclear universities and training

organizations for development of common master of research

programs, postgraduate training, curricula analysis and

enhanced training (at present NRNU MEPhI has agreements

with more than 20 universities from USA and Europe).

• Training of students and professionals from embarking

countries with a support of other training organizations (in 4

years up to 1200 per year);

• System of continuous personnel training for EvrAzES states in

the field of nuclear power applications based on the

international standards;

• Cooperation with regional educational networks.

Under the IAEA umbrella

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• Develop together with other vendor countries curricula and

training programmes on nuclear power issues (e.g. Basic of

Power Reactor Technology, Principles of Engineering Safety,

Principles of Nuclear Security, etc.);

• Develop the selected courses using the IAEA CLP4NET or

other suitable platform;

• Support the IAEA in implementation of the selected courses

in Member States or at IAEA or at NRNU MEPhI. The last

option includes the use of nuclear engineering laboratories.

• Organize the working meeting on the above subject in IAEA

in fall 2013

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Thank you! A.Kossilov@inode.at

Looking forward to cooperation!

The presentation was

developed with a support of:

Ms. Svetlana Sheveleva of

Rosatom,

Ms. Inna Kokorina,

Messrs. Eduard Kruychkov

and Nikolay Geraskin of the

NRNU MEPhI.