ENELA’s six founding stakeholders – Areva, Axpo, EnBW, E.ON Kernkraft, Urenco and Vattenfall – told a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, that the academy will train young graduates and high potential employees from different backgrounds to become leaders in the field of nuclear energy.

The academy will be based in Garching, near Munich in Germany. Walter Hohlefelder, a member of the supervisory board of E.ON Kernkraft and chairman-designate of ENELA’s advisory board, said the academy could become a leading European institution in the field of nuclear energy management and leadership training. He invited other organisations to join or support the initiative.

The academy programme, which is to begin in 2011, will include a ‘nuclear energy management programme’ and ‘nuclear energy leadership cycle’ based on a theoretical and practical approach focusing on European requirements and specifications in areas such as economics, technology, legislation and safety standards.