PRESS RELEASE

A Conference dedicated to networking in nuclear education and training across the fields of engineering, science and technology.

The OECD study in 2000, Nuclear Education and Training….Cause for Concern? highlighted the necessity for a renaissance in nuclear education and training and recommended the following:

• We must act no

• Strategic Role of Governments

• The Challenges of revitalising nuclear education

• Vigorous research and maintaining high quality training

• Benefits of Collaboration and Sharing Best Practices

The world has responded. From the Americas to Europe to Asia networks have been established to respond to the necessity to maintain and perpetuate nuclear knowledge in order to provide a suitably qualified workforce for the future operation of nuclear power plants.

The NEST^et conference is designed to facilitate the exchange of information, collaboration and the sharing of best practices in nuclear education and training in engineering science and technology as well as knowledge management in this energy sector.

The Hungarian Nuclear Society, as a member of the European Nuclear Society took the initiative in 2006 to offer Budapest as the host city for the very first NESTet conference. Together with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute and the PAKS NPP, the Hungarian local organising committee has also organised technical visits to the PAKS nuclear reactor and training and research reactors.

The conference has attracted over 130 participants from 29 countries: 20 European countries as well as delegates from the USA, South America (Argentina), Asia (Japan, Korea and Vietnam), Middle East (Israel, United Arab Emirates) and Africa (South Africa). In addition, the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, has co-sponsored the conference and organised a knowledge management workshop as part of the conference.