A Chinese university has set up a nuclear science and technology school in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

The Nuclear Science and Technology Institute was recently formed under the Harbin Engineering University. Sun Yufa, an academician with the Chinese Research and Development Center of Nuclear Power, was named as honorary head of the school.

The Harbin Engineering University was the former Military Engineering Institute of the People's Liberation Army, which was founded in 1953. The university has been a major base for nuclear science and a training center for the industry.

The school has opened bachelor degree majors in nuclear reactor engineering, nuclear chemical and fuel engineering, nuclear technology application, nuclear radiation protection and environmental engineering as well as nuclear physics.

The school is expected to take ten years to become an internationally respected higher-learning institute for its technological innovation power in nuclear science, and in supplying elite talents to the country's nuclear industry.

The school has signed all-round cooperation agreements with the China Nuclear Industry Group, Guangdong Nuclear Power (Group) Co., China Academy of Engineering Physics, China Shipbuilding Industry (Group) Co., and the country's top-notch nuclear science research institutes.

(Xinhua News Agency December 15, 2005)