Five years of partnership between nuclear power stations in Germany and the CIS and Central European states

For five years, partnerships have existed between German nuclear power stations and nuclear power stations in the CIS and central European states with the object of increasing the nuclear safety and reliability of nuclear power stations through the interchange of experience by experts at all operational organisational levels. In this period, about 200 reciprocal meetings, exchanges of groups of experts, secondments into the partners' plants and seminars, of which about two-thirds have been in German nuclear power stations, have taken place. Improvements and a change in safety-responsibility awareness are clearly established. In this area, the partnerships have made an important contribution. (orig.)