Belarus Training and Tutoring Feedback

1. BelarusTraining and Tutoring Feedback Department for Nuclear and Radiation Safety ofthe Ministry for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus June 2016

2. Short update Specifications of the Belarusian NPP Belarusian NPP will consist of two units with total capacity of up to 2400 (2x1200) MW, service life of a unit - 50 years • Location - Ostrovets site in Grodno region • The Russian project «AES-2006» with WWER reactors of the third (3+) generation

3. Belarusian NPP Main Prospective Schedule Points

4. Licensing of Belarusian NPP construction Licensing Authority: MES Basic Document: Presidential Decree of September 1, 2010 № 450 “On Licensing of Certain Activities ”

5. Short update(cont.)

6. Growth and Considerable Structural Changes in Gosatomnadzor 45 new employees including 22 young professionals INIR recommendation: The staffing of the Regulatory Body with graduates provided by the State Universities and other educational institutions from 2012 onwards should become a high priority in the HR action plans of BELARUS

7. Competences Development Internal sources External sources IAEA national and regional TC projects and programs EC projects and programs, including T&T (Training and Tutoring for NRAs and TSOs) Bilateral cooperation (Russian Federation, Ukraine, Armenia, Germany, France…) RCF,WENRA, WWER Forums • State training program for nuclear power for 2008-2020 (resources for training and retraining on nuclear and radiation safety issues increased about 5 times in 2014 up to 585 men/hours) • Topical internships for newcomers • Technical meetings of experience exchange and tutoring 2015 • 68 topicaltrainings for GAN staff members in Belarus and abroad • Priority: on-the-job training on NPP under • construction (Leningrad-2, Novovoronezh – Russian Federation) • operation (Paks – Hungary, Kozloduy – Bulgaria)

8. Cooperation Projects in T&T 2014-2015 • European Commission projects: • 2 ongoing technical cooperation projects (BY3.01/13, BY3.01/09-(B)) IAEA projects: 2 ongoing IAEA technical cooperation projects (BY9/020, BY9/022) Participation in regional IAEA projects

9. TSO System Development

10. Supervision and enforcement strengthening • Issuance of licenses for the operation of Belarusian NPP • Safety review and assessment before NPP commissioning and operation (Deterministic and probabilistic safety analysis of nuclear installations) • Emergency preparedness (crisis centres system) • Human factors role in severe accidents • NPP stress-tests organization, including development of legal basis for its implementation • Continuation of HR competences development • System of knowledge preservation & transfer (for long-term) is needed • Intensive activities regarding equipment acceptance • TSO creation in short • Establishment of GAN Management System • IRRS mission preparation and conduction (2016) Forthcoming Activities

11. Lessons Learned • “+”: • Stability and continuity of projects; • Systematic approach to the establishment of the Belarusian NRA • Good basic training on several aspects for young professionals; • Friendly respectful attitude. • “-”: • Use of solely English does not allow to work in the most effective way (translation is needed); • 1 regional training with the involvement of many trainees are organised (as a rule only 1-2 people can be trained at a time); • Need catalog and programs of courses at the beginningof year planning; • Need in agreement of tutoring programm with Gosatomnadzor • Insufficient practical training on acting installations; • Top regulatory management is not involved in trainings.

12. Future Needs in the present Training and Tutoring Catalogue • Participants of the courses in 2016-2017: • 5 new employees young professionals from specialized universities (training courses according Training Catalogue Nuclear Reactor Safety Major Safety Aspects and Regulatory Control at NPP) • experts of created TSO

13. Future Needs in the present Training and Tutoring Catalogue Regulation on the use of IRS activities • Essentially new radiation facilities(gamma-knife, cyclotron, positron emission tomograph, linear accelerator) During the training «Radiation Protection in Medical Applications» - visits such facilities and practical exercises (participate in inspections as observers, master classes, quality control facilities …)

14. Future Needs NOT in the present Training and Tutoring Catalogue • Regional courses (Minsk, 2016) in Russian: • «NPP with WWER design and operation safety review in the frames of an expertise» (1 week) • «Expertise of the accident analysis results at NPP with WWER» (1 week) • for the participants of the GAN and TSO involved in the Safety review and assessment of NPP operation

15. Future Needs NOT in the present Training and Tutoring Catalogue Supervision over: • Safety culture • Organizational and human factors • Commissioning of nuclear installations (registration of equipment, physical and power launch, Investigation, infringement accountancy and use of operational experience in the regulatory activity) Interviewing, supervision practice (at the example of the inspectors’ work at the acting installations)

16. Future Needs NOT in the present Training and Tutoring Catalogue Training (3 days) for Top regulatorymanagement: • Leadership • SafetyCultureandeffectiveSafetymanagement • StrategicManagement • Decision-making • Teamworkandteamdevelopment • RiskManagement • ManagementSystems • Manageaccidents • ChangeManagement • Timemanagement (includingthemanagementofoperationsandplanningmeetings) • Influencethroughcommunication • Management of conflicts in working groups

17. Thank you for your attention!