Dear National Liaison Officers and Assistants,

In reference to the IAEA Technical Cooperation Programme, it is my pleasure to inform you that the interregional TC project INT2023: “Supporting Member States’ Capacity Building on Small Modular Reactors and Micro-reactors and their Technology and Applications as a Contribution of Nuclear Power to the Mitigation of Climate Change” has been approved by the IAEA Board of Governors for the period 2022-2025.

The objective of the project is to raise awareness and to improve knowledge, capacity building and safety review capability in developing countries as far as all the fundamental aspects of SMRs and MRs deployment and their electric and non-electric applications are concerned, mitigating climate changes and integrating the basic principles of circular economy. Special emphasis is on siting, design, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance, human resource management and management system considerations, technology and safety assessment, engineering, fuel cycle, waste management, decommissioning, economics and financing, safety and regulation.

The project has been approved with 100%-foot note a/ budget, meaning that resources and funds will need to be identified and mobilized in order to implement the planned activities. For your kind information, please find attached the project background as well as a power point presentation outlining more details of the project. 

We would like to take this opportunity to invite your country to join this project. To do so, your country needs to fulfil the participation criteria mentioned in attached adhesion form and submit through official channels. 

Furthermore, we ask you to nominate a national Project Counterpart, who will serve as the main contact for the project within your country. Kindly include the following information for the project counterpart:

Full name of person (Mr/Ms.):

Name of institution:

Title/position:

Email address:

Tel:

Once we have received the information, we will make sure to include the project team in our IT Platform PCMF and you will receive a notification.

We remain at your disposal should you have further questions.

Best regards,