[cdn-nucl-l] Fellows selected for first World Nuclear University summer camp

["Adam Mclean" <adam.mclean@utoronto.ca>]

Posted in platts Nucleonics Week, Volume 46, Number 5, February 3, 2005.

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Fellows selected for first World Nuclear University summer camp

Seventy-four young people from 33 countries, one-quarter
of them women and half from developing countries, will
participate in the World Nuclear University's (WNU) first
Summer Institute this July to August, the World Nuclear
Association (WNA) announced this week.
The WNU, inaugurated in September 2003, was founded
by WNA, the World Association of Nuclear Operators
(WANO), the IAEA and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency,
and has support from the nuclear industry and institutions
of higher learning around the world. Its goal is to provide
in-depth instruction about topics relevant to the future of
nuclear technology to those identified by their governments
and companies as future nuclear industry leaders.
The students-called WNU Fellows-will gather July 9-
Aug. 20 at the Idaho National Laboratory for a curriculum
featuring lectures covering the "global setting" (energy supply
and demand, climate change), international regimes,
technology innovation, and nuclear industry operations,
according to the announcement. Among the speakers scheduled
are WNU Chancellor Hans Blix, Areva group CEO Anne
Lauvergeon, WNU Chairman Zack Pate, DOE nuclear energy
chief William Magwood, and environmental scientist James
Lovelock.
John Ritch, WNA director general, said that "virtually
every major nuclear country" was represented in the group
of students selected from among 133 nominees. He said
there was "good representation" from China (four students
nominated by Tsinghua University), India (four working in
nuclear research and development centers and the nuclear
utility), Brazil (two from academia and government), and
South Africa (two from PBMR Ltd.). Half the Fellows already
have doctoral degrees or are doctoral candidates.
The $9,500 Summer Institute fee will be covered for
about half the WNU Fellows by financial support from government
or industry. About half will receive aid from the
IAEA technical cooperation program, according to the
announcement on the WNA's Web site (http://www.worldnuclear.
org). The names of the candidates will be posted on
the Web in a few days, Ritch said.
Areva has nominated two people each from France and
Germany, and Electricite de France will send one student, as
will E.On, each of three Swedish utilities, Urenco and
Cameco, among other industry sponsors. Given the location
of the Summer Institute, Ritch said, there will be 10 Fellows
from the U.S. They include representatives of Southern
Nuclear Operating Co., the Electric Power Research Institute,
and four universities.-Ann MacLachlan, Paris