 before we leave for lunch. Now the real session starts. Now we are going to start the actual sessions. The formal inauguration is over. The first thing that we are going to do now is get to know each other. We are from 30 different countries. This is truly an international event. The most important thing is you are going to learn many things and in addition to that, you're going to also have many new friends and you're going to explore what the other guy is doing. So that's another important thing. Networking is another important thing of this school. So to start with, let's have a brief introduction of each one of us. Just tell your name, your country, and your background briefly, about one to two minutes, not more than that. So let me just start with myself so that it gives you an idea. My name is Ashok Ganeshan. I am working for IAEA as a knowledge management specialist. I have about 30 years of experience in the nuclear industry. It's mostly working in nuclear power plants in operations, maintenance, engineering, and a little bit of commissioning. And I also worked in international organizations for developing safe and reliable operations in the form of documents, peer reviews, technical support missions. And I'm from basically from India. I am Yadr Keshad from Jordan Atomic Energy Commission. I am director, thank you. I am director of nuclear safety directorate. I was the ex director, I was the ex director of the nuclear safety and security at the regulatory body in Jordan also. I am a member of nuclear safety standards committee at IAEA, and also I am one of the member of the core team for the SMR, IAEA, SMRZ group. Just pass it on, please. Thank you. My name is Abdul-Gadir Muhammad, Abdul-Gadir Muhammad. I'm from Sudan. I'm director of planning section for the owner operator in Sudan. We have a nuclear war program in this one. I work in teaching field for three years of my experience and the rest of my experience in the ministry of electricity as a learning engineer and the rest of the head section of learning and contracts engineer now, thank you. Hello, everyone. My name is Antonina Kuzmina and I work in technical support organization in a Russian regular body. So the main responsibility is mostly education and training activities. Hello, everybody. My name is Samuel. I'm from China originally. Now I'm in the IAEA nuclear engineering department, nuclear power section. My education background is nuclear engineering from University of Cambridge. Nice to meet you all, thank you. Good morning, everybody. I'm Ussika Lomoji-Zola. I'm from Nigeria. I'm in teaching. I teach nuclear and particle physics and I'm glad to be here. Hi, everyone. My name is Hamdi Hassan. I'm working in Egyptian nuclear and radioeutical laboratory authority. I'm a member in the central administration for inspection and enforcement unit. Thank you. Hello, everyone. My name is Aiman Eberdini and I'm from Egyptian nuclear and radioeutical laboratory authority. And I'm working as a lecture assistant and also I belong to review and assessment sector. Thank you. Hi, everybody. My name is Marwa from Egypt. I work as a physics lab engineer in a university called The Whale City. Hello, Alexander Kolokal, Russia, Moscow, Russian research center, Kurchatov Institute, working as a project management. Good morning, everyone. Richard Brown from the UK. I currently work for the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Although I'm currently seconded to the Eurofusion Consortium and I'm working on the design of the first demonstration fusion power plant. I'm shortly on my way to work at the ETA Project in maintenance management, which is alluded to in the earlier presentation. Thank you. Hello, my name is Edi Jugianto. I'm from Indonesia. I work in national nuclear energy agency. I work as operator in research sector. Thank you. Hi, everyone. My name is Branya Winda from Kenya. I work with the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board. I do nuclear economics and energy planning. Hello, everyone. My name is Iqia. I'm from Ghana. I'm a lawyer by profession and I work with Ghana Atomic Energy Commission as a legal officer. Hi, everyone. My name is FNG Emmanuel. I work with the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, Department of Manpower Training and Capacity Development. My area of specialization is nuclear power plant engineering. Thank you. Hey, my name is Nino Slavuisic, originally Macedon, obtained bachelor in master's in nuclear engineering, currently operating as a safety engineer in the Indian River of Austria. Hello, everyone. My name is Runkia Ayoemuru. I'm a colleague of Immanuel. I also work at the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission in the nuclear power plant development department. We're working on planning the nuclear power plant project for Nigeria and I'm presently doing my PhD at Northwest University in South Africa. I'm working on nuclear. My doctoral is on nuclear engineering. Thank you. Hello. My name is Jonas Lora. I'm from Romania at the Institute for Nuclear Research where I have been working since 2012 at the radioactive waste treatment and conditioning plant. Thank you. Hi, everyone. My name is Saul. I'm from Brazil. I am a let go engineer and I work for nuclear industry in Brazil. Good afternoon. My name is Nixon Polperiparan. I'm working in the International Atomic Energy Agency and I will explain more about my role in the afternoon because I am serving as the main system administrator of CLP for net. The platform which you already know and I will explain more about it in the afternoon during my session. Thank you. Rafael Martinsic and I'm coming from the country you will be next, visiting next week. Which one? Slovenia. Slovenia. I used to be tired. Now I am retired and I was working at the IAEA at some point. Thank you. Hello, everyone. My name is Maurice Machao. I'm from South Africa. I work at NEXA. It's the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation. I work as a scientist. My background is physics. Hello, my name is Wadalupe Boado. I'm from Argentina. I'm a radiation protection technician and I'm following now an environmental management degree. I work in the National Atomic Energy Commission in the international organization sections which is the national liaison office to the IAEA. Hello, my name is Agustín Claret. I'm also from Argentina and I also work in the National Atomic Energy Commission. I hope you can all excuse me. I don't have a background in engineering or physicists. I'm a social sciences bachelor. But I'm also very excited to be here. I'm happy to meet you all. Hello, everyone. My name is Lucas Purlano. I came from Argentina, also, with him. And I also work in the National Atomic Energy Commission but on the nuclear food cycle management. And I'm working into a CRP project from IAEA related with the accident and the future nowadays and more of the part of the economic involvement of the fields. Thank you. Hello, my name is Mohamed Carol Arif. Mustafa. I'm from Malaysia, working at the National Nuclear Agency as a research officer for the physics and nuclear physics section. Thank you. Hello, Salamu Alaykum. And very good afternoon, I think. How are you? Okay, my name is Naim Shao Kewin Hamzah. I'm from the National Nuclear Agency, the research institute. So I'm working as a research officer there. Okay, thank you. Hello, my name is Fahana Kouser. I am from Pakistan. I'm working in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission as system analyst. We work on financial management, financial planning, environmental analysis for applied systems in nuclear power plants. Thank you. Hello, everyone. My name is Danny Prianto. I'm from Canada. I'm working for Canadian Nuclear Laboratories as a technical planner. And my specialty is the commissioning and waste management. Thank you. Hello, everyone. My name is Dinara Vasava. I'm from Azerbaijan, Institute of Radiation Problems. And I am an associate member of ICTP. Very good afternoon, Shao. My name is Simba Rashemangena. I'm from Zimbabwe. You can call me Simba. My background is instrumentation engineering. I work for the Radiation Protection Authority of Zimbabwe. And recently I've just completed my master's in nuclear engineering. My specialty is thermolytrolics. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Twist Gealex. I'm from Uganda. And I work with the Minister of Energy and the department that is responsible for promotion and developing of a nuclear power program for Uganda. And I work there as a nuclear safety officer. I'm happy to be here, looking forward for a successful training with you all. Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. I'm Alina Konstantin from Institute of Nuclear Research, Romania. And my current activities are related to radioactive waste management issues. Hello. My name is Andrei Goetche. I'm also from Romania. And I'm currently working in Brussels, in Belgium, for FORATOM, the Trade Association for Nuclear Energy in Europe. Hello, everybody. I'm Samia Islamliva. I'm from Bangladesh. I work in Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission as a scientific officer. My main responsibility is research on nuclear material or any other material. That's all. Thank you very much. Hello to everyone. My name is Bianca Kautseva. I'm from Bulgaria. I'm a legal advisor. And I work for the company that manages the project for the construction of new nuclear units at our current NPP in Bulgaria. A very bright noon to one and all. I'm Sarabjod Kaur from India. I'm a PhD student at the National Institute of Technology, Environment, Monitoring and Assessment Lab. I'm a life member of Nuclear Traxxas IT of India. And it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you. I am Aliki von Hey. I'm working at the International Atomic Energy Agency within the Planning and Economic Studies section. And I'm the unit head for 3E analysis there. And 3E stands for Energy, Economics and Environment. And I will be giving the two lectures on construction and energy supply and demand tomorrow morning. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Now we will quickly move to the next section is the scope and objectives of this two weeks program. It's most important what we are going to see in the next two weeks. And if you have any questions, we can discuss on that. So the most important thing is you are all here for the first time. Most of you, I guess, many of you is a new place, far away distance. Some of you have traveled more than 10,000 kilometers from far end of the world. They have come here. You may need some help. Please do not hesitate to ask, be it technical, be it personal, we are here to help you to the extent possible for you. I'm here. I will do my best for you to do whatever possible. And the most important person is Doreen Soulik, the school secretary. You have not seen her. You must meet her and say thanks to her. She has done a tremendous job in organizing the school in a very good situation. And you are all here with all logistics arrangements done very well. And if you need any help, she would be able to do. And Mr. Claudia, we've met today, is a local organizer here. He can also help you if you need anything. Please do not hesitate if you have any issues. The big picture, the big picture is that we want to provide or develop nuclear leadership in the industry. That's the goal of IAE or my, it's my goal is to develop nuclear leaders, nuclear leadership. That's why we choose young people, about 40 people we choose. And then we're trying to provide a training which will make them professional in almost all aspects of nuclear energy. If you see, there are 13 elements taken into consideration for designing this course, which includes including nuclear law, the safety, the security, the fundamentals of nuclear energy, and many aspects, many other aspects which are relevant for today. So at the end of two weeks, you would become knowledgeable about all these aspects. And you can, you will be, I would not say that you would be suitable for a nuclear leadership position. And it would definitely prepare you for a nuclear leadership position. If you collaborate with the second one, the most important thing is the second part, your goal. There are a lot of responsibilities from your side to make sure that you get all the information that what is told here. And you're going to receive a plenty of information, information with so many baskets are going to reach you. But how are you going to take all those baskets of information and to enrich yourself into various aspects of nuclear energy? So my humble request to all of you is that be interactive. Don't be just listener. Ask many questions, interact with the staff. The people who are going to teach you have got enormous experience. They're specialists in their field. For example, if somebody is going to teach you emergency preparedness and response, he has spent almost all his life in that particular aspect. So make use of this opportunity to grab as much information as you want from them. This is already known to you. We are 42 participants. Maybe we would be 41 or two last minute changes would be there, around 40 students from 30 different countries. That's one of the highest number of countries participating. This is a truly an international school. We conduct so many nuclear energy management schools in IAEA. Some of them are regional. They focus on a particular region. But this ICTP and IAEA joint NEM school is very unique because we invite students from all part of the world. We have people from this end, Argentina, Brazil. We also have people from Indonesia, things like that. And another thing is I forgot. There is a wide spectrum of participants. If you listen to the self-introduction given by each one of you, I've seen a nuclear lawyer sitting here. I'm also seen a radiological technician or radiological expert. Also, there are experts in nuclear safety. There are also people who are pursuing research and doctorate in universities in nuclear engineering. There are many, many experts available within yourself. You are all having a different background. That is also contributing to the school. So when we discuss on some aspects, some of you can contribute your views and your comments and your thoughts. That's very valuable for the school. We have totally 30 lecturers in this two weeks program. 13 of them are from IAEA. And seven of them are from external experts. We also hire external experts who have expertise in a particular area. And the important thing is they have decades of experience in a particular area, and that's going to be very useful for the school. The scope of the school, don't get bogged down by looking at the big scope of this. As I told you earlier, we are going to talk about a lot of things in these two weeks. And most all areas of nuclear energy just listed down what we are going to discuss here. But you're going to take it in small pieces. So don't worry. At the end of the two weeks, you would be able to accumulate or take away all the information that is taught here in a useful manner, I'm sure. To start with, the afternoon lecture, we will have the most important one, I would say. It's from Mr. Yanko Yano who was here in the integration. The nuclear energy basic principles. There are a set of basic principles which are guiding the nuclear energy industry. So we will have a very enlightening interactive lecture from Mr. Yanko just after lunch on the nuclear basic principle. Because this is very important, without having a basic principle of nuclear energy, what we are going to achieve in developing for the future on that. They're also the most important thing that DDG was speaking a lot about innovative reactor technologies, evolutionary reactor technologies, SMRs. And you would be having the expert from IAEA, Mr. Stefano Monti. This afternoon, he will start with the lecture and he continues to have a few more lectures tomorrow. You will be listening a lot about what is happening in the new technologies, what are the new developments, SMRs, and all these things in detail. And this is very important because nothing goes without cost and economics, because nuclear energy has to compete with many energy sources to remain in the top or to sustain in the future. So we have Vanik from our IAEA. She will be talking about these topics, the economics aspects, the world energy balance, how nuclear is positioned with respect to other energy resources, all that we will talk about tomorrow morning sometime on this. And there is another important topic, which interesting topic is nuclear knowledge management. Knowledge, it's a, you know, nuclear industry is a knowledge-driven industry. And this industry is not, is different from other industries in the sense that you just cannot start the industry and run away. It starts and then runs for almost 100 years. If you look at the design, the construction, the commissioning, operations, and then until you decommission, if you look at it, it's going to be almost close to 100 years. Now we are talking about 60 years lifetime of nuclear power plants. So with 100 years of people needed for operating safely a technology like this, the knowledge needs to be transferred from one generation to another. And the knowledge management in nuclear industry plays a typical role or a very, very important role. And we will talk about it in one session. I would be sharing this, teaching this session to you. Fever cycle and waste management, it's another aspect of nuclear energy, very important. Starting from uranium ore to what we do until the decommissioning, how the nuclear, nuclear energy fuel cycle is running from front end to the back end. All aspects of fuel cycle we will be discussing and my colleague from IAEA would be talking about this. This is IAEA support for nuclear power infrastructure development for newcomer countries. This is particularly very important area. IAEA is doing a lot of things for newcomer countries. Starting nuclear power in a country is not going to be that easy because you need to have infrastructure that supports safe and sustainable development of nuclear energy. So what IAEA is doing? So today morning Mr. Chedoko was talking about the milestone programs, milestone one, two, three. So it would be elaborated and discussed in a lecture, couple of lectures on this topic in this week sometime. This is another important area. We exclusively devote one full day for nuclear safety. We have a couple of experts coming from IAEA. They would be talking about nuclear safety aspects. Nuclear safety as you understand most important aspects and what are those principles and what actions are being taken in IAEA to promote nuclear safety. All that we will listen for a whole day session on this. Another important area in nuclear energy is the radiation protection, emergency preparedness and response. This is also one full day is exclusively devoted for this topic considering its importance. We would be listening from experts from Argentina. We have an external expert who is an authority on nuclear radiation protection and who would be teaching you about the present day situation about radiation protection, what's going on in the industry with respect to radiation protection. Also we have Rafael from Slovenia and who will be talking about emergency preparedness and response as well in the afternoon. Nuclear security and IAEA guidance, we have an external expert who would be teaching us. Very important area today, security because of various security threats are emerging and nuclear security is also very important and reaching a different dimension because of external threats, because of many other factors influenced from outside. Nuclear security takes a different dimension. So what's going on presently and what guidance is available? We would be talking about it on maybe two or three lectures on nuclear security series. Nuclear safeguards, that's about non-proliferation. One of the most important goals of IAEA is to make sure that there is no proliferation. So to that, what IAEA is doing, what safeguards activities are doing? We have a two hour lecture from one of the experts from IAEA on safeguards. Research reactors and their use. Research reactors play a very important role in promoting nuclear energy because they are the foundation stone, I would say, for before you launch into a power reactor, the research reactor help you to understand the fundamentals more clearly and then make the human resources suitable for the next level. So how the research reactors help the industry to become a matured industry? We have an expert from IAEA who can talk about what research reactors are doing, what actions are being done in this area. It's a very short lecture for about one and a half hour. And then another area is we have a lawyer here. I'm very happy to see that. I was looking forward to it. We are going to exclusively talk about there are many legal issues associated with the nuclear energy. We have experts coming from external experts as well as IAEA experts in the nuclear law. They would be talking to a, they would be teaching you about the various legal issues and legal, you know, the mechanisms available to safely and sustainably develop nuclear energy in countries. One full day is exclusively dedicated for nuclear law. They will discuss in detail. The last one is about human resources, leadership and stakeholder involvement in nuclear energy. It's very important, like morning Mr. Chidoko was talking about, is this the human resource development for nuclear energy is a very critical issue. You just cannot develop a nuclear engineer overnight, as you know. When you want to develop a nuclear engineer who can operate a nuclear power plant, in my experience it takes at least about seven to eight years, if you have a very good infrastructure, maybe five, six years, not before that. It's not possible to make him licensed to operate a plant. So if you develop, and if he's leaving the organization, it's going to be a very different scenario. So how can we develop a nuclear competence and nuclear human resources which are very much essential for safe operation of these plants? So we'll talk a whole day about these leadership, human resources and stakeholder involvement in nuclear energy. It's the last day on that. And finally, we have the most important thing. Again, I wanted to repeat you is that it's an opportunity for you to network with, not only your colleagues, also with all the industry people who are going to talk about all these subjects, and then carry forward this relationship for your future goals and future developments. So this nuclear energy management school, as Mr. Chidoko was telling you in the morning, it started in 2010 and Mr. Yanko played a very key role in starting this school when he was an IAEA staff there. And the idea is to develop young nuclear leadership in the industry. That's why we select people from different countries. We take only people around the age of 30, 35, not more than that. That's the ideal age to develop nuclear leadership qualities and then provide them with the leadership qualities information. So it started in 2010, and you can see the way it is growing. Now we are having more and more demand, more people, more countries, more member states are asking for this nuclear energy management school, and we are providing them. You can see this year we have four schools, and next year could be about six or seven schools. Another two, three schools are getting added. So this is the eighth school in ICTP. We have methods of instructions, mostly it's by lectures, by the staff, by using PowerPoint videos, maybe some video presentations could be there, video movies, and also interaction with staff and cohorts. This is one important thing, CLP for NET. My colleague Mr. Nixon was introducing you. He will talk about this in the afternoon. You had a, most of you had a pre-training, and then you have passed an exam as part of selection. That's a platform CLP for NET. It's a year-learning platform of IAEA, through which we train people. So at the end of the school, you will have an exam, and that exam will be conducted in this CLP for NET platform. And also many resources which are needed for you to refer to your project works, or other materials, are all available in the CLP for NET. You will learn more from Nixon when you hear him at the end of this day. Another important activity of the school is the group projects. The group project is the idea is to focus on a particular area by dividing all of you into some groups so that six or seven people focus on a particular theme, and then do some little bit deeper research on that particular area. We have experts from different areas, and the experts will be acting as a mentors and guides to do that research, and then so that you have a deeper understanding on a particular area. The school gives you a broader idea about almost all aspects of nuclear energy. The project allows you to work on little deeply on a particular area. So make use of these projects. I'll talk about this project at the end of the day because we don't have much time now, we are running short of time. So I'll give you more introduction at the end of the day about projects. And also we recognize that as a nuclear engineer, visiting a nuclear facility is very important for you to understand and appreciate how a nuclear power plant runs, how people behave in a nuclear power plant, how the security system, the entrance formalities, everything will give you a picture of how nuclear industry operates. So we are very fortunate that we could able to get permission to Crisco Nuclear Power Station, which is about 200 kilometers away from here. On next week Thursday, we would be visiting this facility. And this is about the final exam, which I will tell you later, don't worry too much about it, but just all these questions and things will be coming from what the lecturers are going to talk here and what they're going to reference in these two weeks. And it'll be about 50 to 60 questions. And you would be asked to do it in about one and a half hour in the year learning platform. So we have typically, we wanted to make sure that we give equal linkage to all aspects of learning here about active participation, group projects and final exam. And totally at the end of the school, we would be giving you a certificate for successful completion of this school. This is the last slide. This is very famous one. Tell me, I forget. Teach me, I may remember. Involve me and I learn. So my humble request to all of you is that don't just be a listener. And don't allow us to be only a teacher. Let us involve ourselves and learn the maximum possible here in these next two weeks. So have some fun. Thursday is a beautiful place. Learn and have some fun. With this, I'll close this morning session and we have just one hour time for lunch. We will meet here again two o'clock and start the next presentation. Do you have any questions before we just break for lunch? Yeah. Good question. Yeah, I will give you the presentation. All of these presentations and the video lectures, all of these presentations are video recorded and they will be uploaded in the ICTP website. It's an open website. You can listen to all these presentations. So and if you want the power points also can be given in a PDF version, no problem. Yeah. Thank you. See you after lunch. For the group. Okay.