Tsvetan Marinov, a PhD student from the Cyclotron Physics Laboratory of the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, received the “Best” award in the “Safety, Security, Quality” category. The award was presented by Nasko Mihov, Executive Director of Kozloduy NPP, on the occasion of Power Engineer’s Day. Tsvetan Marinov works at the nuclear power plant as a radiation and dosimetric control technologist in the group “Operational radiation and dosimetric control”.
Traditionally, at a formal ceremony on the professional holiday of the Bulgarian power engineers, the distinguished professionals in various fields are awarded during the year. Some of the main categories are “Safety, Security, Quality”, “Reactor Equipment”, “Control and Management Systems”, “Best Physicist” and others.
The award is also of great importance for the INRNE, as Tsvetan Marinov is one of the six PhD students from the joint training program between our Institute and Kozloduy NPP. In 2017, he was the first in the program to successfully defend a PhD thesis on “Application of new gamma-spectrometric methods for research on the structure of the atomic nucleus and nuclear energy” at the INRNE – BAS. The initiative for training PhD students at the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy from the nuclear power plant was launched in 2011. It is an example of successful cooperation between academia and business, as well as the application of scientific achievements in the industry.
