On April 6, an international teleconference on the topic “Atom for the country” was held, which for the first time connected those who care about the future – young people from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Uzbekistan, countries he member countries of the Atom-CIS commission*.

What opportunities do nuclear technologies bring to the country and people?

Experts invited to the centers told the participants of the teleconference about this:

Belarus

  • Stanislav Grigorievich LEVITSKY, Director of OOO Rusatom Bel, Rosatom's country office in Belarus;
  • «NUCLEAR ENERGY. LET THERE BE LIGHT!» - Nadezhda Evgenievna ZDANEVICH, Head of the NPP Technical Support Department of the Belenergo State Production Association;

Kazakhstan

  • «NUCLEAR MEDICINE. TO SEE THROUGH» - Aigul Bolatovna SADUAKASOVA, Head of the Center for Nuclear Medicine of the Central Clinical Hospital of the Medical Center of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

Russian Federation

  • «ECONOMIC AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT. AND THERE WILL BE APPLE BLOSSOMS ON MARS!» - Svetlana Yuryevna KOSTINA, Minister of Public Security of the Chelyabinsk region;

Uzbekistan

  • «EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE» - Shavkat Shukhratovich ABDUKAMILOV, Executive Director of the Tashkent branch of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI.

The report of the Kazakh speaker, a representative of the Medical Center of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, concerned the issues of modern capabilities of the Republic in the field of cancer control and prospects for the development of nuclear medicine in Kazakhstan.

«We have 7 nuclear medicine centers that use intravenous injection of radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosing oncopathology, which are synthesized locally, at cyclotron-production complexes. There are plans to introduce 4-5 more centers by 2026. The Nuclear Medicine Center consists of a cyclotron-production complex and nuclear medicine departments. Cyclotron production complexes employ not only doctors and nurses, but also physicists and chemists. Kazakhstan has introduced such specialties as cyclotron physics engineer, radiochemist technologist, radiopharmaceutist, chemical analyst, quality assurance specialist and others» Aigul Saduakasova said during the teleconference.

The Nuclear Society of Kazakhstan thanks the administration of the Central Clinical Hospital of the Medical Center of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, for the expert provided.

*The Atom-CIS Commission was established in 1997 for the cooperation of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States in the field of nuclear energy development.

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