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HRD is recognized to be an important component for the sustainable development
of nuclear science and technology applications. |
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The concern was expressed by the majority of the meeting participants that
the maintenance of nuclear knowledge and experience is at risk because
of declining numbers of experts due to retirement and the lack of incoming
young nuclear scientists and engineers. |
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The HRD strategy should be authorized and supported by the high level government
management responding to the national nuclear program as a long term commitment.
Enhancement of nuclear capability to address future applications of nuclear
energy should be part of the HRD strategy. |
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The setting up of a small high level task force by FNCA is desirable to
discuss the strategy for HRD. |
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Regional and interregional cooperation enhance national HRD and international
infrastructure of human resources. Therefore, FNCA and the exchange program
for HRD sponsored by Japan should play important roles. In this context,
specific collaboration of the FNCA with ANENT of IAEA should be defined
in the near future with full consultation with IAEA and other relevant
organizations. |
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The enhancement of nuclear knowledge is needed to promote applications
of nuclear science and technology. Government and private firms are encouraged
to provide special fellowships to students majoring in nuclear science
and technology. |
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Training materials including e-learning materials should be efficiently
produced by sharing works among FNCA countries but not overlapping relevant
IAEA activities. Setting up a task force for planning and working for preparation
of training materials on a work-sharing basis is desirable. |
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Analysis of the database on HRD should be completed early in 2004. The
result of the analysis may be reflected in revising the HRD strategy in
each country, depending on their national policy. The new revised HRD strategy
based on the database analysis should be reported to the HRD Workshop in
2004. This database could be used to identify gaps between the current
situation and the needs of each country. |
