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Policy Department D: Budgetary Affairs
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The actual process of general and individual training of employees is being implemented, on the
basis of the established system by several fundamental ways, namely by:
1) Joining of old experience and new approaches
Decommissioning is an activity that has a challenging demand for human capital, which knows in
detail the technical infrastructure of the nuclear facility from the operation period and, at the same
time, has also a creative approach to the approaches of complex dismantling of the systems.
For this purpose, working groups were created consisting of former operating personnel, maintaining
the continuity of historical experience with the equipment and its operation and new people from
outside, with current and extensive expertise in project management in engineering and
construction.
Their mixing and subsequent interaction gave rise to project oriented reality when JAVYS takes the
advantage of the knowledge and approach of both team components (knowledge of equipment and
innovative solutions) while eliminating the individual shortcomings, which would bear otherwise
both groups separately (old-fashioned practices and ignorance of the plant’s systems/technical
environment).
2) Institutional system training of employees
The Slovak legislation has created a system of compulsory continual additional education of
employees working in the relevant field of nuclear energy - in operation, as well as in
decommissioning.
This continuous educational process is required by law and is subject to direct nuclear regulatory
body - Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic, which is responsible for the management
and control of all aspects of safety of nuclear energy in the Slovak Republic. Graduation of personnel
in the relevant training types was a lawful condition before issuing licence for V1 NPP
decommissioning.
After electricity production has been completed, JAVYS thus had to ensure, prior to obtaining
decommissioning licence, retraining of all relevant staff (at that time it was 241 employees) for
activities during decommissioning of nuclear installations, respectively comprehensive training of
new employees (22 employees, training time represents 40 working days). The theoretical part of the
training has been divided into a general section on nuclear energy and the specialised section on
decommissioning.
After completion of the theoretical training is then required direct training in situ for the respective
job position and performance of the relevant decommissioning activities.
Training is completed by final thesis and a state examination before the Examining Board - only then
a certificate of achievement can be issued on gaining the prescribed level of knowledge and skills by
the employee.
Our company and individual employees are obligated to sustain this statutory training every three
years.
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