OREANDA-NEWS.  On the 6th of March 2013 the Atomic Energy Information Center in Hanoi (Vietnam) hosted a seminar given by Dinh Truk Nam, a Vietnamese leading expert in nuclear safety, professor.

The seminar was attended by representatives of a number of state ministries and mass media. It was held in the framework of implementation of the staff training program for Vietnam’s first NPP Ninh Thuan, which construction will start in 2014. The event was organized by the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute jointly with the Hanoi Polytechnic University where the center is located.

Other seminar attendees included representatives of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute, the Ministry of Science and Technologies of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Ministry of Education and Training of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Hanoi Polytechnic University, Vietnamese and foreign specialists in nuclear power, journalists from electronic and printed media. Students of the Hanoi Polytechnic University who study thermal and nuclear power were also among the seminar attendees.

The students asked the expert questions on advantages of getting nuclear education in Vietnam and abroad, impacts of radiation on the environment, and safety systems of modern NPPs. The expert also familiarized the audience with results of latest research in critical surface density of heat flux at nucleate boiling and told about applications of the nucleate boiling phenomenon in nuclear technologies. Concluding his presentation, Dinh Truk Nam raised an issue of the importance of the staff training for the first NPP in Vietnam. He wished the Vietnamese students to master basic and sector-specific knowledge for effective work at the NPP.