Pabna, July 15 (V7N)- A construction team composed of ten students from various Russian universities has commenced their labor semester at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna. The students joined the labor semester on July 10th.

These universities, known collectively as the Rosatom Core Universities, are supported by Rosatom, the Russian state atomic energy corporation.

According to a press release from Rosatom on Monday, July 15th, the students will actively participate in various processes at the nuclear power plant during the two-month labor semester. They will gain skills in construction and installation work, catalog preparation, design and working documentation maintenance, inspection processes for incoming equipment and materials, and aspects of RPS (Rosatom Production System) engineering.

Similar labor semesters will soon begin at the El Dabaa NPP in Egypt and the Kudankulam NPP in India, under the supervision of Rosatom's engineering division. A student construction team has already started their labor semester at Russia's Kursk NPP-2. This year, 150 Russian students will work on labor semesters at four projects managed by Rosatom's engineering division.

The first labor semester for student construction teams was organized in 2008 at unit 2 of Russia's Rostov NPP, with 25 students participating. In 2013, the first international labor semester was introduced at the Belarus NPP.

In 2014, a cooperation agreement was signed between Rosatom and Russian student teams. Over the past 15 years, more than 17,000 students have participated in labor semesters across 29 nuclear construction projects, with 22 located in Russia and the rest in countries like Turkey, Belarus, China, India, and Egypt.

The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant will house two units equipped with Generation III+ Russian VVER 1200 reactors, with a total production capacity of 2,400 megawatts. These reactors meet all international safety requirements. The project is being implemented by Rosatom's engineering division under the General Contract signed on December 25, 2015.

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