Examples of employees necessities, training options and the relationship between a nuclear operator and educational institutions were just some of the topics discussed at the seminar “Human Resource Requirements for a possible Nuclear Power Program in Chile” organized by the Chilean Commission of Nuclear Energy, CCHEN, and the National Energy Commission, CNE.
The activity included, among others, the participation of FCFM faculties, CCHEN and CNE members and the representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency, OIEA, Brian Molloy (United Kingdom), Istvan Kiss (Hungary) and Chuck Goodnight (USA).
For the deputy director of CMM, and member of the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Energy of the Ministry of Energy, Prof. Alejandro Jofré “This seminar is an effort being made by the CNE on the study and analyses for energy competence in Chile. “
The Dean of the School of Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Francisco Brieva, attended the first day of this seminar. During his speech, he commented on the position of Higher Education Institutions to a possible need to train professionals in nuclear power in the country. “For us, not only as a University of Chile, but also as representative of the national universities, is a matter of great interest any claims that the country needs to train qualified technical personnel for a possible nuclear program,” he stressed.
For the authority, however, the issue poses significant challenges. “Any future development of a nuclear program in the country has to face how to attract young students to study nuclear energy; training engineering technician talks about concepts like innovation and entrepreneurship, which are impeded when there is a nuclear energy program highly regulated,” he concluded
