MINSK, 7 March (BelTA) – Students of the Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU) have completed predegree practice at the Kalinin nuclear power plant in Russia's Tver Oblast, representatives of the Information and Public Relations Office of the Kalinin nuclear power plant told BelTA.
In line with the existing arrangements Belarusian students are sent to Russian nuclear power plants for practice and for acquiring materials for diploma papers every six months till 2020.
The fifth-year students of the Belarusian National Technical University visited the main departments of the nuclear power plant and met with the personnel. Classes were arranged in the education and training center of the Kalinin nuclear power plant using technical classrooms and a full-scale simulator.
Dmitry Zelenin, Senior Lecturer at the Heating Plants and Power Plants Chair of the Belarusian National Technical University, noted: “We are here in order to see a nuclear power plant with our own eyes instead of just blueprints. The first power-generating unit is supposed to be built in Belarus in a couple of years. The guys will have to work there. Some students from our group have already visited the Novovoronezh, Rostov, and Smolensk nuclear power plants.”
The BNTU student Dmitry Kryukov remarked: “It is important for me to get some hands-on experience. We are going to be assigned our first post-graduate mandatory jobs soon. Prospective employers have sent 17 applications, which means that 17 young specialists will be able to start working at the Belarusian nuclear power plant. We are happy to be able to visit operating nuclear power plants.”
The Kalinin nuclear power plant has been offering predegree practice to senior students of Russia's top power engineering universities for dozens of years. Now predegree practice is also offered to foreign students. The education and training department of the nuclear power plant has a lot of experience of training nuclear industry personnel. Highly qualified instructors, technical classrooms, and full-scale simulators to act as control rooms of existing reactors guarantee that young specialists will receive the best kind of training there is, assured representatives of the Information and Public Relations Office of the Kalinin nuclear power plant.
The Belarusian nuclear power plant is built using the AES-2006 nuclear power plant design that features VVER-1200 type reactors. The construction site is located 18km away from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The power plant will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400MW (2x1,200MW). The first unit is scheduled for commissioning in 2019, with the second one to go online in 2020.
