Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy (Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, President Hidetoshi Takehara) of the nuclear power business has agreed to implement a new nuclear human resources development program with Universiti Kebangsa and Tenaga Electric Power University in Malaysia.

 According to Hitachi-GE, this program has launched a new educational program based on the human resources development course that the company has conducted with Tokyo Institute of Technology for five years, including students majoring in nuclear power, researchers and experts from nuclear-related organizations. Promote human resource development for the target.Tokyo Institute of Technology will also cooperate with both Malaysian universities in the course.

 As the first step, in September, Hitachi-GE engineers and researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology will hold a seminar at Tenaga Electric Power University on the themes of the three principles of peaceful use of nuclear energy and nuclear security.About 1 Malaysian researchers and students are scheduled to attend.

 Hitachi-GE has opened an international nuclear human resources development donation course at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and has held nuclear business trip courses in Southeast Asia and Lithuania twice a year since 2011.The total number of students has reached 2.

 Malaysia is planning to introduce nuclear power in order to diversify its power sources in an economic reform program aimed at becoming a developed country in 2020. The Malaysian Nuclear Power Corporation was established under the Prime Minister's Office in 2011, but it is necessary to pass on the technology and know-how of the country that has experience in building and operating power plants, and human resources with highly specialized education and training on nuclear power. Training was an urgent task.

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