06.11.2023
PARTICIPATION IN THE MEETING OF THE WORLD ASSOCIATION OF NUCLEAR OPERATORS
As chairman of the Board of Governors of the WANO Moscow Centre, E. Martirosyan, General Director of the HAEK CJSC attended the Strategy, Governance and Nominating Committee meeting held on 23-28 October, 2023 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
During the meeting, which was also attended by the association management and the Governing Board Chairs of the five regional centres, a number of issues were discussed regarding WANO membership, involvement of new members and rendering support to them, as well as making some reasonable changes to this process. In the course of the discussions the essential role of the association in ensuring safe operation and optimization of the life of the units was emphasized.
In addition, at the meeting the five regional centres presented their reports related to the conducted peer reviews and the “Action for Excellence” initiative.
According to the agenda a technical tour to the Barakah NPP was also organized where the participants had an opportunity to get acquainted with the specific performance features of the four NPP units and to discuss directly with the staff certain issues pertaining to actual differences in design, engineering and layout between nuclear power plants.