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     Dear all,     It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 6th International Conference on Nuclear Decommissioning and Environmental Recovery INUDECO 2021 which will be held in the city of Slavutych, Kyiv Region (Ukraine) on April 27-29, 2021 as part of the events dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster.     Due to the situation connected with the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be held both offline and online, and you are to choose the format and decide on which…

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    Meeting of the Institute for Safety Problems of NPP scientists and researchers from the University of Bristol of the GB Royal Academy of Engineering was held on October 20, 2020 in Chornobyl. The visit of foreign colleagues to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone was related to testing remote mapping technology of radioactively contaminated territories using self-propelled remote complex SPOT of Boston Dynamics. During the visit specialists of the ISP NPP and University of Bristol presented their developments in the field of using robotic systems for conducting researches in hazardous…

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    Scientists of the ISP NPP Division for Nuclear and Radiation Safety and researchers of the University of Bristol of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) had meeting in Chornobyl. Serhii Paskevych, Deputy Director and Viktor Krasnov, Head of the Division for Nuclear and Radiation Safety represented the ISP NPP. Dr. Peter Martin and his colleagues David Megson-Smith, Yannick Verbelen, Dean Connor, Matthew Ryan Tucker and Erin Holland represented Bristol. The visit of the foreign colleagues to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone was connected with practicing the remote mapping technology…

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    Publishing house “Akademperiodyka” of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has published a monograph by E. Garger, A. Nosovskyi and M. Talerko “Secondary Radioactive Contamination of the Atmosphere in Intermediate and Late Phases of a Nuclear Emergency” within the framework of the publishing project “Ukrainian Scientific Book in English”. The volume of the book is 274 pages.       The monograph summarizes the results of measurements of the air contamination by radioactive aerosols, which were carried out in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone from May 1986 to the…

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Paton Borys Yevhenovych november 14, 1918 – august 19, 2020       Borys Yevhenovych Paton famous scientist, the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine passed away on August 19, 2020.      Borys Paton was the main executive of Ukrainian science for the whole period of existence of our independent state and faithfully worked under maintenance and development of the scientific society. He was the first one who was awarded by honorary title Hero of Ukraine for achievements in development of the national science.    …

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     Publishing house Springer planned to issue 3 volume set «Behavior of Radionuclides in the Environment». There are summarized scientific results of researches of the environment contamination consequences as a result of 3 biggest in human history radiation accidents – at Mayak plant (1957), Chornobyl NPP (1986) and Fukushima Daiichi NPP (2011). The second Volume “Chornobyl” was published in June 2020 (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811535673).   The book reviews major research achievements concerning the behavior of Chernobyl-derived radionuclides, including their air transport and resuspension, mobility and bioavailability in the soil-water environment, vertical…

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