Cooperation for nuclear schools

Monday, 27 June 2011 India and Russia are to cooperate on four schools that will support nuclear energy applications. The Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership will be based in Haryana, near Delhi, and will run courses on advanced nuclear energy systems, nuclear security, radiological safety as well as applications of radioisotopes and radiation technologies. An agreement on the schools was signed in Vienna by chairman of the Department of Atomic Energy, Srikumar Banerjee, and director general of Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko.