OREANDA-NEWS. August 09, 2012. A Bangladeshi delegation led by Mashihur A.K.M. Rahman, Economic Advisor of the Prime Minister, visited CICE&T in Obninsk. This is already the third visit of the top-ranking officials of the nuclear power program of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, reported the press-centre of ROSATOM.

The first visit took place in 2010, and after the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission twice seconded its employees to do short-term trainings in CICE&T. This visit directly relates to training of nuclear power plant operators.

According to the agreement signed on November 2 last year, the first NPP in Bangladesh will be build to the Russian technologies, in accordance with all international requirements and lessons learned from the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan. The Russian system of nuclear operators’ training is substantially different from that of western and Japanese. First of all, these are the requirements for the operator to have a university degree and work experience in working positions.

Given features of the Russian education and training system, it is essential to start shaping the system of training of the Bangladeshi staff already now. The members of delegation visited the Obninsk Institute of Atomic Energy (branch of NRNU MEPHI) to familiarize with and discuss education system of students. In the end of the visit Bangladeshi ambassador to Russia S.M. Saiful Hoque was given a Certificate of successful training in June 2011, because he hadn’t been able to attend the ceremony in due time.

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The intergovernmental agreement with Russia concerning the construction of the nuclear power plant in Ruppur (north-west of Bangladesh) was signed n November 2, 2011 and about a month prior ROSATOM Director General Sergey Kiriyenko announced establishment of the International Personnel Training Center at CICE&T. According to practical arrangements, the IAEA sends for education and training to Russia the heads of national nuclear power programs of the countries which are recipients of Russian nuclear technologies. The heads, on their turn, organize training of other personnel of the nuclear power plants under construction or commissioned.