i-Nuclear: European academy to train future nuclear industry leaders struggles after Fukushima

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European academy to train future nuclear industry leaders struggles after Fukushima by I-Nuclear An initiative by some of Europe’s biggest nuclear energy firms to create an academy to train and educate future industry leaders appears to be foundering just two years after its optimistic launch in January 2010. The European Nuclear Energy Leadership Academy (Enela) was created when the nuclear renaissance appeared to be taking off to train young graduates and high potential employees with different backgrounds to become leaders or to prepare them to take broader responsibilities in European nuclear energy corporations and institutions. It evolved out of the European Commission-sponsored European Nuclear Energy Forum and had EC support. But i-NUCLEAR has learned that Enela’s director, Jean-Claude Gauthier, a senior vice president of Areva NP, has resigned from his post, along with several other managers. One of the key programs of the academy, the Enela Management Programme, a business and technical masters degree that was to be provided in cooperation with the Technical University of Munich, has been officially postponed, according to a statement on the Enela website. Sources told i-NUCLEAR that the program has effectively been cancelled.