Rabat – As part of its cooperation program with the International Energy Agency (IEA), Morocco’s Agency for Nuclear Safety (AMSSNuR) is launching today the third training session on nuclear safety for nine African countries.
Held at AMSSNuR’s Rabat headquarters, the training aims to share the know-how and best practices in line with IEA recommendations, the Moroccan agency said in a statement.
The training session equally aims to share with the nine countries valuable insights on the establishing of legal frameworks regulating nuclear reactors for research purposes.
Organized between August 22 and 31, the 10-day event features a workshop on the safety inspection of nuclear facilities. For the workshop, AMSSNuR will be using the technical infrastructure provided by the National Center for Energy, Science, and Nuclear Energy (CNESTEN).
The statement further adds that African countries participating in the event will visit the nuclear reactor managed by CNESTEN and learn about the inspection program AMSSNuR advised the center to adopt.
In addition to the participation of national players, the training will see the participation of 25 representatives from Africa’s nuclear safety authorities, including attendees from Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Senegal, and Tunisia.
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By hosting the training workshop in Morocco, AMSSNuR aims to strengthen its position as a leading model of nuclear safety at the regional and continental levels.
In the past five years, Morocco has made significant efforts to develop a regulatory framework to formulate a national nuclear safety strategy through a collaboration program with the European Union.
The program concluded on June 15 in Rabat, with a representative of the EU’s Delegation in Morocco, Matilde Ceravolo, saying that the country now represents “an example for Africa” in terms of capacity building in the field of nuclear safety and protection against nuclear hazards.
Launched in 2018, the EU-Morocco nuclear cooperation program paved the way for future collaborations between Moroccan and European institutions that would outlive the program, Ceravolo explained.
“The program itself may have come to an end,” but the collaboration has only started and will gain more momentum in the future, she stressed.
