TOMSK,
Aug 15 – RIA Tomsk.
The international conference "Radioactivity and Radioactive Elements in
Human Environment" which will be attended by scientists from 14 countries,
will take place in Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in September, professor
of the geoecology and geochemistry department of TPU Leonid Rikhvanov reported
RIA Tomsk.
"The forthcoming scientific conference "Radioactivity and Radioactive
Elements in Human Environment" is held in TPU for the fifth time.
<…> In the conference, judging by the sent reports, and all them are 188,
is supposed participation of scientists from 14 countries, including France,
China, Mongolia, Germany, England, the USA, Lithuania, Kazakhstan and others
", – Rikhvanov told.
The interlocutor of agency specified that among participants there are also
experts from the leading scientific centers of Russia. In particular,
participation of the academician Rudolf Aleksakhin, the corresponding member of
the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexey Yablokov and other leading experts of
Russia and foreign countries is supposed.
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"The burning issues connected with the use of radioactivity and carriers
of this phenomenon – radioactive elements will be discussed. <…> The most
various questions are considered: from geochemistry and geology of strategic
raw materials to the handling of radioactive waste (RW). Often materials are
debatable", – he noted.
According to him, in particular, there will pass the round table on mineral
resources of strategic metals of the Russian Federation, the director of the
All-Russian scientific research institute of mineral raw materials Grigory
Mashkovtsev will direct it. Except the main actions there will pass the youth
section where more than 50 scientists will take part. Conference will take
place on September 14-16 in TPU. Action supports the Russian fund of basic
researches.
TPU for more than 65 years prepares personnel for the nuclear branch of the
country and has many scientific developments in this sphere.
In the Tomsk region works the large enterprise of the nuclear branch of Russia
– Siberian Chemical Plant (enters the structure of "Rostatom"), which
for years of work accumulated a lot of waste.
In the next years on its platform
the construction of disposal facilities for radioactive waste of the 3d and 4th
classes is planned.