India extends training opportunities through IAEA
Nuclear professionals from
across Asia will be able to use new training facilities at a soon-to-be-opened
Indian research centre under extended cooperation between India and the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Sekhar Basu, chairman of
India's Atomic Energy Commission, and Yukiya Amano, director general of the
IAEA, have agreed on the extended cooperation that will enable IAEA-nominated
experts to use the new training facilities of India’s Global Centre for Nuclear
Energy Partnership (GCNEP).
The Indian government approved
the establishment of the GCNEP in 2010, and construction began on the facility,
near New Delhi, in January 2014. The centre is to house five schools to conduct
research into advanced nuclear energy systems, nuclear security, radiological
safety, nuclear material characterisation and applications for radioisotopes
and radiation technologies, with training facilities to include virtual reality
laboratories and a radiation monitoring, calibration and accreditation
laboratory.
Basu said the centre aims to
promote safe, secure and sustainable nuclear energy through global
partnerships. The IAEA will be able to use the centre's facilities to train
experts from the region and beyond, he said. He also said India would be ready,
with IAEA support, to extend its national network of more than 100 cancer care
centres and convert it into a regional or global network to make its expertise
available to cancer care providers from other countries.
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Source: World Nuclear News