Month: July 2022

    On July 18–22, 2022, a meeting of representatives of 16 countries implementing the scientific project F33026: “Development and application of isotope techniques for efficient water resources management in mining areas” was held in the IAEA headquarters.         The work concerned the improvement and application of isotopic methods for solving water resource problems in the areas of activity of mining enterprises. Project implementation dates: 2021–2024.      Representatives of such countries as Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, France, India, Italy, Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, South Africa,…

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     On July 11-13, 2022, the first meeting of the Steering Committee and Program Group of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident Information Collection and Evaluation (FACE) OECD/NEA Project was held. The FACE project is a continuation of the BSAF, PreADES and ARC-F projects.      The FACE project is implemented with the following general goals: clarification of the interpretation of accident scenarios at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP, including the impact of accident management measures; clarification of current opportunities and directions for further improvement of the modeling of…

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    On June 30, 2022, the Scientific and Practical International Conference “Processing of Liquid Radioactive Waste: Ukrainian Context” was held in Kyiv online. The co-organizers of the conference were the Alfa Atom company, SI “The Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine, the SE “Centralized Enterprise for Radioactive Waste Management”, the SSE “ECOCENTER”, the EU project “Pre-disposal Management of Radioactive Waste” – PREDIS, Professional Association of Environmentalists of Ukraine, National…

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    Employees of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine participated in the preparation of the author’s chapters for the three-volume monograph “Behavior of Radionuclides in the Environment”. The publication was launched in 2020 by the Springer publishing house. The book is registered in the SCOPUS international scientometric database.     The monograph is devoted to the impact of the three largest radiation accidents on the environment in the history of mankind: at the Maiak plant in Kyshtym (1957), at the Chornobyl…

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     Already during the war, the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine published a monograph based on the results of the joint work of scientists from 10 countries as part of a grant from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).      In the monograph, the results of the work are presented in separate sections. Authors from Ukraine participated in the preparation of the monograph, among them: M. Panasiuk, I. Kovalenko, N. Sosonna, and M. Buzynyi. The text of the monograph was…

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