On June 22, at the Meeting on Cooperation with the Internation al Atomic Energy Agency, the prospects for cooperation between MEPhI and the IAEA in the area of training foreign students were discussed. The event was attended by the head of the section of the Department of Technical Cooperation Jing Zhang (PRC) and other IAEA experts, representatives of the State Corporation "Rosatom", the heads of the Technical Academy of Rosatom and the heads of MEPhI.
Jing Zhang discussed with the leadership of our university a wide range of issues of cooperation in the field of education, including the possibility of training foreign students at MEPhI in the framework of cooperation with the IAEA.
“Of course, this is very interesting for us, because IYaPhT can help them improve their skills in some of our strong areas: nuclear reactors, materials science and others,” said Dmitry Savkin, Vice-Rector of MEPhI for international cooperation.
The MEPhI partnership with the IAEA has existed for more than a dozen years. Many graduates of our university have worked and are working in this famous international organization, and some of them were even awarded the collective Nobel Peace Prize awarded by the IAEA. The university participates in the IAEA Nuclear Knowledge Management Program, in the creation of reference master's programs in the field of nuclear and radiation safety and nuclear technologies.
The University counts on cooperation with the IAEA in other important areas, including the provision of expert services for the implementation of the main IAEA programs and technical cooperation programs, the fulfillment of Russia's obligations to maintain and develop the INIS information system, and the implementation of specific projects on a contractual basis. Under the auspices of the IAEA, the university maintains cooperation with regional nuclear education networks such as ANENT, LANENT, StarNET, AFRA-NEST and ENEN. In March, MEPhI received the status of an IAEA cooperation center.
“We are also interested in promoting MEPhI developments in countries where nuclear energy and nuclear technologies are being developed,” said Georgy Tikhomirov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Technology. – The University has extensive experience in developing mathematical models for simulators of nuclear power plants and research reactors, as well as a unique experience in creating training tasks for students based on these simulators. Our developments and training tasks for them are used not only at our university - in cooperation with the IAEA, we have delivered them to universities in several countries.”
In Russia, Jing Zhang visited the leading universities that train specialists in the field of nuclear energy - the Institute of Energy of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University of, MEPhI and Lomonosov Moscow State University.
During the tour of MEPhI, Jing Zhang visited the laboratory of experimental nuclear physics, where unique two-phase xenon detectors are created for monitoring the neutrino radiation of nuclear power plants, the laboratory of nuclear power plant simulators, the laboratory of the MEPhIST tokamak (future installations and diagnostic tools for large tokamaks are being developed here) and the virtual reality laboratory – here the guest from the IAEA was shown virtual analogues of nuclear facilities available at MEPhI. The laboratories aroused great interest among the IAEA delegation.
