A multi-national practical training course for nuclear candidate countries organized by EERRI

An increasing number of Member States (MS) requests IAEA assistance to develop nuclear skills and resources in support of national nuclear power programmes under development. For countries with little or no existing nuclear infrastructure, human resources and skills must be developed to support planning, analysis, evaluation and other prerequisite activities for the decision making process. The Eastern European Research Reactor Initiative (EERRI) was approached by the IAEA to organize and implement a Group Fellowship Training Program on Research Reactors (GFTPRR) to satisfy the increasing demand for the aforementioned skill development. The GFTPRR will be offered to participants from MS who have expressed interest in this subject to the IAEA. The first training course is planned for spring 2009 with six participants organised by the Vienna University of Technology/Atominstitute, two Hungarian Nuclear Research Institutes and the Jozef Stefan Institute/Ljubljana, Slovenia. This paper presents the planning procedures, the detailed course content and logistics for the first model course. (author)