Bulletin 2/2010 - Siempelkamp NIS

SIEMPELKAMP | NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY
trainees with insight
products, maintaining as well as expanding
our personnel competence is indispensable
in national and increasingly in
international business,” says Michael
Szukala, Managing Director of Siempelkamp
Nukleartechnik GmbH. Special
Control room for remotely-operated dismantling process
know ledge is essential not only for
building new nuclear facilities but also
for equipping, retrofi tting or decommissioning
them!
Even though the number of students at
colleges and universities that offer nuclear
technology studies (included in the
departments of electrical engineering,
mechanical engineering, and power
engineering) has been rising in the last
few years, the market still has a defi cit
of skilled graduates.
In order to offset this defi cit, SNT is
pursuing a number of strategies:
• SNT is attracting and training students
at an early stage by offering courserelated
general internships and supporting
students during their mandatory
internships. Next to interns that stay
three to six weeks to get insights in the
company, two students per year complete
internships of six months each in
the engineering area of SNT.
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Michael Bodmer at the premises of the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michael Bodmer: from the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT) as an
intern to his bachelor’s thesis
Michael Bodmer (student at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology at the
Department of Mechatronics) completed
his internship with an SNT contracting
authority on the premises of
the former research center Karlsruhe
which is now the Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT).
Because of the positive experiences
and the close contact to the deployed
project team on site, he decided to
continue working with SNT after his
internship. For ten months he worked
as an assistant (with student status) on
the SNT project involving the dismantling
of a biological shield at the multi-purpose
research reactor in Karlsruhe.
Because a large part of the dismantling
work at the multi-purpose research reactor
had to be handled remotely, Michael
Bodmer received subject-based, handson
training parallel to his studies and
gained relevant experience. The logical
consequence resulting from this: Currently,
Michael Bodmer is working on
his bachelor‘s thesis in the area of engineering.
However, his thematic focus
has shifted from the decommissioning
to the new development of a hot cell
and to the design of a lifting device
that is operated fully remotely.