Experience and lessons learned in developing training course for key organizations

Adam Kordas, Nuclear Energy Department, Ministry of Economy

Vienna, 4 – 6 June 2013

History and Potential in Nuclear

• In the 1980s the construction of the first polish nuclearpower plant in Żarnowiec was implemented (advanced to80%). However, after the accident in the Chernobyl powerplant, the government resigned from the project, whichresulted, inter alia, in the migration of the majority of Polishexperts in the field of nuclear energy, who left the country towork at universities, research centres and NPPs.

• There is 1 research reactor in Poland located in Świerk.• Now Poland has 5 big research centres running R&D in the

field of Nuclear (IChTJ, NCBJ, IFJ PAN, CLOR, IFPiLM),• There are 8 technical universities running studies - nuclear

engeneering and 5 universities running studies like: nuclearchemistry, nuclear security and radiological protection,nuclear technology and physics etc.

• There are also 2-3 universities running post graduatedstudies on Nuclear Energy.

Polish Nuclear Power Program

• Poland’s ”Energy Policy until 2030” - implementation ofnuclear power could couse diversification of powergeneration sources

• The works on creation and adoption of the PNPP hasbeen conducted since 2009 - Resolution no. 4/2009 ofthe Council of the Ministers of 13 January 2009 onnuclear power development activities.

• 2009 – establishing the Government Commisioner forNuclear Power and Nuclear Energy Department at MoE

• 2010 – draft of PNPP

Polish Nuclear Power Program

PNPP project provides the following milestones:

Stage I – June/July 2013:• passing and entering into force of regulations necessary for the

development and functioning of the nuclear powerelaboration and adoption by the Council of Ministers of the PNPP

Stage II – January 2013 – December 2014 : • choosing of the nuclear power plant site• finalizing the tender for the site survey contractor;• tender for the reactor technology for the first nuclear power plantStage III – January 2015 – December 2017:• drafting of the project and obtaining all required licenses and approvalsStage IV – January 2018 – December 2022:• obtaining the building permission and construction of the first nuclear

power plantStage V – January 2023 – December 2025:• completion of the first nuclear power plant (2-3 units), launching the

construction of a second nuclear power plant to be operational in 2029.

Scale Pyramid of Polish Nuclear Power

100 bln PLN

10 bln PLN/Year

6 GW

47 mln ton CO 2 /Year

Planned PowerApp. 16 % of present installed power

Planned sales value of electric energy per year

Estimated avoided CO2 emission yearly(comparing to Coal Power Plant)

Planned electric energy production yearly

App. 1/3 of present production

Planned level of investment value

50 TWh/Year

Time perspective of the Program150 – 300 years

Current stage of PNPP implementation

The first phase of the program is already implemented:

• The Atomic Law amendment and so-called "InvestmentLaw" were enacted and came into force on July 1st, 2011,

• Process of public consultation of the PNPP and thestrategic environmental impact assessment of the PNPP(Prognosis), including cross-border consultation, wasfinished in May 2013

• The project of PNPP is being updated and is planned tobe submitted to and adopted by the Council of Ministersin June/July 2013.

• PGE declares that the first unit of the NPP will be readyto operate at the turn of 2023 and 2024.

Current stage of PNPP implementation

• In 2013, following the adoption of the PNPP by theCouncil of Ministers, a preliminary draft of the NationalPlan of Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Managementwill be prepared.

• MoE prepeares a list of Polish companies capable toparticipate in PNPP. The next step will be the preparationof the plan of effective support of the Polish industryparticipating in the Program.

• MoE currently catalogues all Polish scientific institutionsand research institutes with expertise and capacity toparticipate in the nuclear power program.

• Currently, the MoE is working on the draft of HRD Plan inthe field of Nuclear Energy.

Current stage of PNPP implementation

• On 25th of November 2011 PGE announced three candidate sites (Choczewo, Gąski, Żarnowiec).

• PGE and MoE continue information and communication compaign in all three locations and neighbouring areas

• Financing & Investment analyses on-going by PGE.

• September 2012 - Letter of Intent between PGE. ENEA,TAURON, KGHM to set up joint company which could be future operator and lincensee.

• January 2013 – selection of Site Characterization Contractor (Worley Parsons).

PGE EJ1 (Investor/Operator) activities in the field of HRD

• PGE EJ1 with the help of CH2M Hill prepared a HR plan detailing competences required for each stage of the programme.

• The bulk of the expertise required are not nuclear specialists but engineers who have been trained in the nuclear specific aspects.

• PGE EJ1 looked across the whole PGE group and concluded that they can provide most of the resources required.

• For the future PGE also supported the development of nuclear engineering programmes with 2 universities and are recruiting staff from these universities each year.

• PGE is considering building a training centre dedicated to its nuclear power programme. It will probably be part of the vendor and consortia contracts.

PAA (Regulatory Body) activities in the field of HRD

• Existing PAA staff has competency sufficient for thepresent scope of PAA regulatory responsibilities, butdefinitely insufficient for new challenges of nuclearprogramme development.

• There is an immediate need to increase competency andassure support for siting and design stages of thelicensing process, in the short term, and subsequently inconstruction and commissioning.

• From the year 2012 PAA is hiring new staff.• The current leaders of PAA have experience based on

their work for the previous nuclear programme and theregulation of other activities.

Ministry of Economy (NEPIO) activities in the field of HRD

• 3 MoU signed by the Polish government about training and HRD (with: Japan, Republic of Korea and USA)

• Program Train the Trainers („Educators”) 2009-2012 agreement with French Atomic Energy Comission (CEA) -36 Polish professors trained and participated in the internship program in France. Next Program Train the Trainers for 120 professors – responsible Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

• Organization study visits of Polish security services/offices in the sites in Sweden, France and United Kingdom.

• Producing education materials for pupils and teachers (education brochures, books, e-learning programme, CD for teachers).

• Cooperating with Ministry of Education in encouraging teachers to use this materials.

• Workshops of workforce planning with IAEA – October 2012.

The Plan of Human Resources Development(HRD Plan)

• 2012 – beginning of works, leading role of Nuclear Energy Department of MoE – draft of discussion document.

• Now: collecting remarks and assessing potential and needs of stakeholders (questionaire sending to each organization).

• Institutions involved in the preparation HRD Plan:Ministries of Economy, National Education, Science andHigher Education; PAA (Regulatory Body); RadioactiveWaste Utilization Plant; Office of Technical Inspection;the Investor; academic and scientific communities.

• Next step: estblishing inter-department expert team to prepare HRD Plan on basis of datas and documents delivered by MoE.

• Next step: prepearing the Educational Forum (Autumn of2013) in order to discuss the ideas of HRD Plan.

HRD Plan

• HRD Plan will be submitted to the Council of Ministers for approval.

• Character of HRD Plan – photo of Polish potential and guidelines for stakeholders.

• Content of HRD Plan (project):- assessment of potential Polish schools, universities, R&D

Centres,- tasks to be executed,- the number of trained specialists needed for each phase

of the Program implementation,- required qualifications of the staff,- potential risks.

HRD Plan

• It is recognised that diversified methods of securingworkforce will have be used:

- development and training of national human resources,- using international human resources,- partnership with nuclear technology producers,- partnership with foreign regulatory bodies, nuclear

industry organizations and educational entities,- partnership with universities and R&D organizations.

INIR Mission in Poland

• In March 2013 for 1 week - INIR Mission in Poland.• Poland has completed most Phase 1 activities and is

progressing a number of areas in Phase 2.• 6 Recommendations, 5 Suggestions, 5 Good Practices• The INIR team identified strengths in several nuclear

infrastructure areas• Recomendation on HRD: „Poland should develop and

approve an integrated Human Resources DevelopmentPlan based on the inputs of the main organizations andthe current capabilities of educational and trainingestablishments.”

• End June - Final INIR Report to Poland

Remarks of INIR Mission in the field of HR

• There needs to be an integrated approach to human resource (HR) development across all organisations.

• A national strategy needs to consider:- assessment of current national institutional and human

resource capacity and education programmes including the additional education, competences and skills that will be required (gap analysis)

- how appropriate staff will be attracted, trained and retained

- what centres and programmes need to be established for education and training

- what research capability needs to be developed- a senior leader’s development programme.• At this stage, this should be an integrated plan that can

be developed, in a co-ordinated way, into plans for each organisation.

Lessons learned/considerations

• In current situation, when PNPP is not approved by Council of Ministers, it is very difficult to explain spending state fundings for nuclear education and trainings.

• Students are currently not very interested in nuclear engineering becouse they don`t know what will be decided in case of PNPP (polititians gives not very clear messages to the public) – when PNPP will be approved it will be necessary to popularize idea of nucler education among young people and also encourage them thanks to scholarships and internships abroad. Lately an interesting activities PGE started (program for students).

• Many very efficient activities are providing by potential suppliers of technology (such as: Areva, EDF, Westinghouse, GE Hitachi) - they provides study tours, internschips and scholarschips for students and young professors (there are some agreements with Polish universities).

Lessons learned/considerations

• Actually the most important thing is to educate staff of NEPIO (MoE), Investor (PGE) and Regulaory Body (PAA). Every of this institution is responsible for prepearing their own human resources. Very helpful are workshops and courses of IAEA and also always helpful cooperation with French CEA, AFNI and I2EN.

• MoE shouldn`t be a kind of „HR Office” for every stakeholder or for the nuclear sector. It is useful to prepeare a kind of guidelines for key stakeholders. It is impossible in Polish conditions to force this institutions to do what Government expects. That attitude would be a problem for the Regulator (its independence) and also for Investor (supervision on PGE have different ministry and also it is a stock exchange company).

Lessons learned/considerations

• Thanks to the program „Train the Trainers” arranged by MoE and CEA/AFNI some universities rebuilded their edecational potential. Cooperation with foreign partners was very fruitful - educators in Poland are the new pioneers of nuclear education.

• Educational offer of Polish universities for current status of the nuclear project is sufficient. But now it is too many universities and technical universities that deliver nuclear education. It is essential to choose maximum 3 academic centres to further development. The longest tradition of nuclear education and most important researches are located in : Warsaw, Krakow and Gdansk.

Lessons learned/considerations

• Warsaw Technical University develops interesting program of learning nuclear engeneering. It could be the basis of further development in the rest of chosen universities.

• Idea is that universities could cooperate in arranging educational offer for students (common diplomas/specialities). The lessons would be inEnglish. It is absolutely essential to arrange internships in foreign academic centres and in nuclear industry. WTU plans also exchanging students, invitate visiting professors/ lecturers, including students to research projects.

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