The development of a nuclear workforce will be essential for the build-up of a nuclear industry supply chain in Poland, but a number of challenges remain related to personnel, according to Anna Talarowska, who chaired the European Nuclear Young Generation Forum
(ENYGF) in Krakow, Poland.
Talarowska, a thermal hydraulics engineer at Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), said the nuclear career path is “an environment where one can develop rapidly or get lost without detailed guidelines” such as the lack of proper mentoring, a lack of clearly defined development paths and career frameworks at an early stage.