24.09.2007 // Press service of Rosenergoatom

Results of competition of students’ research projects concerning nuclear power engineering will be announced in Obninsk on Sept 26–27

The results of the competition of students’ research projects “Knowledge of Young Nuclear Power Engineers to Nuclear Power Plants” will be announced in Obninsk on Sept 26–27

During a conference on Sept 26 the winners will present their works. The next day, on the eve of the Day of Nuclear Power Engineer, the jury will award them.

The key goal of the annual corporate competition is to stimulate the interest of future nuclear power engineers in their profession and to support the most talented and creative students and their supervisors.

The competition was organized by Obninsk State Technical University for Nuclear Power Engineering. The rector of the university Nikolay Salnikov is the chairman of the jury.

This year the competition had nine topics:

• Operation and repairs of nuclear power plants;
• Physics and modeling of processes at nuclear power units;
• Steam turbine systems of nuclear power plants;
• Reactor operation and protection systems;
• Electrical equipment of nuclear power plants;
• Ecology of nuclear power engineering;
• Automated process control systems at nuclear power plants;
• Water and fuel technologies in nuclear power engineering;
• Safety and non-proliferation of nuclear materials.

Students of 13 universities took part in the competition.

The best works were submitted to the Rosenergoatom Jury chaired by the deputy director general-director for scientific-technical policy of Rosenergoatom Vladimir Asmolov. The jury selected 34 best works: 8 of them got the first prize, 12 – the second and 14 – the third.

The first place winners will get 30,000 RUR each, their supervisors – 10,000 RUR, the second place winners – 20,000 RUR, supervisors – 7,000 RUR, the third place winners – 10,000 RUR, supervisors – 5,000 RUR.

The organizers hope that the competition will grow increasingly popular and will popularize nuclear power engineering and attract more and more talented youths into the sphere.

This is the second competition. The first one was conducted in 2004 and was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the nuclear power industry. This year REA decided to make it annual.

This year’s competition was dedicated to the 15th anniversary of Rosenergoatom.