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Dimapur, Dec.15 (EMN): A grand reception was held for 29-year old engineer at Canadian Nuclear Energy in Toronto of Canada, Crireuding Zeliang by the Zeliang Kangtsa Union of Peren on Sunday December 15 at the Dimapur Airport.
Social media is calling Zeliang the first “nuclear scientist” from among the Zeliang community and the Naga people.
Born on December 23 1990 to Chusi Hieme and Ilubuile Hieme of Peren district, Zeliang is said to have completed his schooling in 2006 from All Saints' Higher Secondary School in Peren, graduated first-class in Bachelor of electrical engineering from the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology in Arunachal Pradesh in 2012, and post graduation from the Indian Institute and Technology in Kanpur in 2015.
After clearing the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, he pursued a Master's degree in nuclear engineering and technology from the Indian Institute and Technology at Kanpur, a premier institute in India and the only IIT with nuclear engineering programs. He is stated to have graduated with first class.
Zeliang’s research was on the "Uncertainty Analysis of Shutdown System of a Fast Reactor" which was published in an international journal (2013-2015). The name of the journal could not be made available at this time.
After his graduation, Zeliang is said to have worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) UN, in Austria for a year (2015-2016) with senior nuclear scientists who support the development and deployment of Advanced Modular Nuclear Reactors around the world. He is stated to be responsible for the development of an IAEA technical document to incorporate lessons into the design of advanced nuclear reactors following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident in 2011.
He obtained a Master of Applied Science in nuclear engineering with first class in 2018 from the University of Ontario in Canada.
Zeliang is currently working in the capacity of an engineer at the Canadian Nuclear Energy Toronto in Canada. His work and research focus on "Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Plants," "nuclear accidents sequence modelling," and "analysis, and development of Innovative Small Modular Nuclear Reactors."
Prior to that, he was said to be pursuing research on the development of algorithms for "Probabilistic Reactor Dynamics" to capture the evolution of accident sequences in nuclear plants, and to avoid state-space explosion.
Zeliang was serving as the co-scientific investigator for an International Atomic Energy collaborative research project involving 15 countries. He represented Canada at several IAEA technical meetings to discuss the risks and challenges posed by passive nuclear systems.
Several of his works are stated to have been published in international journals, including his presentation on advanced dynamic nuclear risk assessment techniques in 2017 at the Annual American Nuclear Society Conference at Pittsburgh.
Zeliang's areas of interest are in nuclear science and technology, cosmology, astronomy and development of advanced risk assessment techniques for nuclear plants and space systems.
At the reception, Zeliang exhorted that the world was open for every individual and it was up to every individual to decide what to do. In speaking about his experiences, he encouraged the youths to dream big and to pursue their dreams to achieve them.