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

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.