Vietnam's nuclear industry: Lack of serious manpower!

If every year, Vietnam has trained 70-100 people, it is only after 12 to 15 years to have enough professional staff to operate nuclear power plants. According to the Institute of Atomic Energy, the human resource situation for the nuclear industry in general and for the current nuclear power program in our country is not very bright!

If at the universities of all universities, the candidates applying for admission to the school must always be fiercely crowded, then for more than ten years, the nuclear physics departments at the main universities such as Hanoi Polytechnic University Internally, the University of Natural Sciences - Hanoi National University always falls into a slump, the benchmark even lower than other industries but rarely attracts enough students to study.

Every year, only training . a few dozen people!

Many college entrance exams, but the number of people taking and entering the nuclear industry are only a few dozen people each year . In the photo: A university entrance exam

Training human resources for nuclear science has been and is always a sad field of study . Every year, the number of students entering the nuclear industry in universities is nearly double that of students.

The Institute of Atomic Energy, the leader in the output of products, has paid great attention to the training of its service staff. The Institute has granted scholarships to excellent students. This situation, though, has increased the number of students studying nuclear physics a little but not attractive enough for students.

One of the reasons is that it is difficult for graduates of nuclear physics to get a job, or the salary is very modest because this specialty only holds a very vague position in universities as well as a few practical application in society.

In addition, the concept of sticking to the nuclear or atomic industry is also affected much to . fertility!

Nuclear industry: needing "rejuvenation"!

Under the guidance of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the project to put a nuclear power plant into operation needs about 3,500- 4,500 people, including about 500-700 people with university degrees and above. university, 700-1,000 technicians and 2,200-3,000 skilled workers of all kinds.

The training of qualified staff from pre-project, project management, engineering, monitoring to running operation and maintenance testing, radioactive waste management is not easy and cannot be done in one Short time, despite full facilities.

If every year, Vietnam has trained 70-100 people, it is only after 12 to 15 years to have enough of this professional staff.

As of early 2005, Vietnam had only about 600 officials working in the nuclear industry, mostly officials of the Atomic Energy Institute.

Meanwhile, the number of the Institute's staff in the past 10 years declined by 20% due to many reasons: changing other industries, working for foreign companies, and long-term overseas. Notably, the human resources of the nuclear industry are aging, the average age of the Institute staff is currently 45, almost no good cadres under 35 years old to go to train abroad. The situation of human resources in the rare-earth geological Federation, Center for Nuclear Physics - Institute of Physics . is also not better.

The issue of nuclear science human resources is almost abandoned for a long time, as commented by experts at many seminars organized by the Atomic Energy Institute. If you want a nuclear power plant by 2020, it is definitely necessary to have additional training plans now.