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If building a nuclear power plant requires more than 10 years of preparation, the most important time is not only in the design, construction or installation of equipment, but in the preparation of people. Because no matter how modern a factory is, it cannot operate safely without a team of qualified, well-trained experts and imbued with a safety culture. Download Training on operating the Da Lat research reactor at the Da Lat Nuclear Research Institute. In the story of Vietnams nuclear power development, technology can be chosen, equipment can be imported, but human capacity is a factor that cannot be formed overnight. This is also the reason why experts believe that human resource training must be one step ahead, even before the plant is built. For Vietnam, besides the problem of technology, institutions, safety and capital, an important question is being asked: Who will be the ones who will operate, manage and gradually master the technology of nuclear power plants in the future? According to experts, the answer does not lie in the number of trained engineers, but in the construction. a team of elite human resources capable of research, management, operation and long-term development of the nuclear power industry. Human resources are the pillar of nuclear safety. Tran Chi Thanh, Director of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM), said that nuclear power should be seen as a field that demonstrates national capacity. A country that can do nuclear power well is a country with a high level of science and technology, Dr. Tran Chi Thanh emphasized. According to him, of all the factors that determine the success of nuclear power, people are the most important factor. Even if a factory is equipped with modern technology, it still needs a qualified team to operate, monitor, maintain and promptly respond to arising situations, handle abnormal phenomena and incident scenarios. International experience shows that major nuclear incidents in history all leave profound lessons about the role of humans. The problem does not only lie in equipment or technology, but also involves management processes, operational capacity and sense of responsibility.Dr. Le Chi Dung, former Deputy Director of the Department of Radiation and Nuclear Safety, said that two indispensable elements of nuclear power human resources are technical capacity and safety culture. Major incidents in the world are all related to people, including a lack of safety culture, he analyzed. According to experts, safety culture is a special requirement of the nuclear industry. This is not just a matter of complying with procedures, but must become a permanent awareness in thinking and action, an instinct of each person participating in the system. Nuclear power human resources cannot be trained in a mass manner. One characteristic of nuclear power training is that it cannot only set the goal of training a lot of people in a short time, but needs to form an elite team capable of leading. PhD. Le Van Hong, former Deputy Director of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute, one of the first people to be properly trained in nuclear technology at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI), Russia, said that nuclear power human resource training needs to follow the pyramid model. Accordingly, Vietnam needs to select excellent students from the natural sciences and engineering at universities with a strong foundation for in-depth nuclear training. From the beginning, it is necessary to train step by step and select people capable of leading research and implementation groups, Mr. Hong said. This approach is also the experience applied by many countries with developed nuclear industries. Not every engineer working in the plant needs to do in-depth research on reactors, but the country must have a strong enough force to understand, control and master the core technology. Download Da Lat Research Reactor is an important practice base in training engineers, researchers and managers in Vietnams nuclear field. Training nuclear power engineers is a long-term process. According to experts, nuclear power engineers are not just ordinary electrical engineers with some additional nuclear knowledge. To become a true nuclear power engineer, learners must go through an intensive training program lasting many years, with a solid foundation in mathematics, physics and related technical fields. At the worlds leading training institutions such as Moscow University of Technical Physics (MEPhI) or MPEI, nuclear power students must study dozens of in-depth subjects, many of which last for many semesters. Core knowledge includes nuclear physics, neutron physics, reactor physics, hydrothermal reactors, materials, automatic control and reactor dynamics, chemistry, etc. Dr. Le Van Hong believes that two particularly important fields are furnace physics and furnace hydrothermal. If furnace physics helps understand and control the nuclear reaction process, hydrothermal is directly related to heat transfer, cooling and ensuring the safe state of the reactor. This isis the knowledge that determines the ability to evaluate and control unusual situations in the plant. Current problem: Lack of core human resources One of the problems pointed out by experts is that the current approach to training nuclear power human resources needs to be reconsidered. According to Dr. Tran Chi Thanh, some documents related to human resource training also have confusion between fields of study and subjects. Listing many fields related to nuclear power is necessary, but if there is a lack of focus on core fields such as nuclear engineering, it can lead to dispersion of resources. Schools such as electricity, mechanics, and chemistry are still training very well. What we lack is people who deeply understand the heart of the plant, that is, the nuclear reactor. Mr. Thanh said. According to experts, before building a training program, it is necessary to clearly determine which positions the factor
