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Applications are now open for the WNU Summer Institute 2013, which will be held 29 June–10 August 2013 at Christ Church College Oxford, United Kingdom. Deadline of 16 November 2012.
Each WNU Summer Institute involves some 80 WNU Fellows, selected from promising nuclear professionals who have demonstrated strong leadership potential. The WNU SI programme is aimed at nuclear professionals between 27 and 37 years of age. Since the Summer Institute’s inception in 2005, over 700 Fellows from more than 70 countries have completed the WNU SI programme. Former WNU Fellows become part of an expanding global network of future leaders in the nuclear profession.
The World Nuclear University is a partnership of the world’s leading institutions of nuclear learning and four Founding Supporters – WNA, IAEA, NEA, and WANO. The WNU Summer Institute is organized by the WNU Coordinating Centre in London, in cooperation with the Founding Supporters.
The WNU Summer Institute curriculum provides cutting-edge presentations on the full range of topics relevant to the future of nuclear technology:
• Global Setting, including energy supply and demand, global warming and climate change, nuclear technology in sustainable development, lessons in public acceptance, and key political issues and trends
• International Regimes, including safety, radiological protection, non-proliferation and security, waste management, transport, and nuclear law
• Technology Innovation, including current and next-generation reactors, advanced fuel cycle, waste management, hydrogen production, desalination, advanced battery power
• Nuclear Industry Operations, including operational safety and excellence, the nuclear fuel market, industry economics and knowledge management
Click here to view the WNU Summer Institute announcement.
The IAEA provides financial support to a limited number of participants from developing countries. Applications should be made directly to WNU Summer Institute.
Applications must be emailed to the WNU Coordinating Centre by 16 November 2012 for IAEA funding and 31 January 2013 for self- or company-funded places.
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