Russia's nuclear industry is facing a serious shortage of personnel. "Rosatom" alone needs twice as many young employees as Russian universities graduate.
Representatives of higher education institutions blame secondary schools, saying that the country lacks qualified physics and mathematics teachers. Universities have proposed building educational campuses directly in "closed" cities so that graduates initially have no temptation to move away from nuclear power plants.
Evgeny Sidorov, a board member of the Nuclear Society of Russia (NSR), noted that by 2030, the "Rosatom" state corporation needs to hire 57,000 graduates of specialized colleges and universities.
But there is nowhere to get them. "Rosatom" is currently hiring about 3,000 graduates a year, and in the near future plans to raise this number to 8–9 thousand, that is, 3 times. But the number of graduates will increase only 1.5 times during this time.
Sidorov added that the industry currently employs 120,000 young specialists, although this is only 30% of the total number of employees. And nuclear power needs young people, since the need for changes is visible at the global level in processes, the transition to new generation energy systems.
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