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Plant-level licensing culminates in demonstrating the safety of a nuclear facility. As the project progresses, the accuracy of demonstrating safety deepens as the maturity of the plant’s design strengthens. In conjunction with the safety assessment, it shall be demonstrated that the nuclear facility has been designed and implemented in such a way that the safety requirements are met.

The preparation of safety analyses requires vast knowledge of the laws of thermodynamics and the special characteristics of nuclear technology and fuel, as well as knowledge of the operation of the plant unit to be modelled. Thus, experts who perform safety analyses typically develop into excellent plant experts.

Platom’s experts Ville Nurmilaukas, Tuomas Kantola and Janne Valkonen participated in the IAEA Technical Meeting in June 2022 and shared their experiences about the development of a requirement management practices.

My very first visit to Saudi-Arabia was an IAEA expert mission at the end of 2017. Before my visit, I was, might I say, a bit worried about how I would be able to learn the local customs and behave accordingly. But I soon learned, that – like everywhere else – life in Saudi Arabia is what you make of it. You can make the effort to integrate by learning Arabic and getting to know the local culture.

We all remember how COVID-19 hit the world last spring and started the still on-going transformation to “remote working world” in many areas of industries. Also education and training activities are going through big changes, and currently majority of trainings are organized as remote online sessions.
In the past few months, Platom has put a lot of effort on organizing and developing trainings based on its customers’ needs.