Armenia`s authorities trying to solve problem of lack of nuclear  energy personnel 

ArmInfo.On February 8, at the next meeting, the Government of Armenia made a change to one of its  earlier decisions, which will solve the problem of personnel shortage in the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Committee.

In particular, according to the first deputy chairman of the  committee Khachatur Khachikyan, it is planned to transfer specialists  from the nuclear safety department, the radiation safety department  and the technical department of the nuclear safety committee from the  civil service to specialists performing civilian work.

"The problem arose because for many years it was impossible to fill  vacancies on the committee. In particular, during 2021-2023, we held  55 competitions for the civil service, 21 of which did not take place  at all due to the lack of applicants or inadequacy of participants,  and 34 competitions involved 21 people, of whom 12 were added to the  committee staff as a result of the competition employees, but during  this period 9 people also resigned of their own free will, and the  committee faces the problem of generational change," explained  Khachikyan.

In turn, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan recalled that the RA  authorities have set themselves the task of building a new nuclear  power plant. "Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, we will be faced with  a situation here: there is money, there is a project, everything is  there, but we cannot implement it because we do not have specialists.  We are already very late with this, but, as they say, better late  than never, and we must make this decision now," he said.

The premier instructed the Minister of Education, Science, Culture  and Sports to pay special attention to future nuclear specialists  when determining quotas for deferment from military service.