20.09.2007 // Press service of OKBM

Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycle for the 21st Century international seminar is to be conducted in Nizhniy Novgorod on Sept 24–27 2007

The seminar will take place at Chayka Hotel. The organizer of the event is the Scientific-Consultative Committee of the International Scientific Technical Center.

The seminar is the continuation of the events that have been organized by the SCC in Moscow, St.Petersburg and other Russian cities. The key objective of the seminars is to discuss the most urgent problems of the nuclear power industry.

The host is OKB Mechanical Engineering, designer of nuclear reactors and power units for nuclear power plants and the navy.

Leading Russian scientists and officials will take part in the seminar: academician, the research manager of OKBM F.Mitenkov, academician N.Ponomarev-Stepnoy (Kurchatov Institute), member of the State Duma Committee on Energy, Transport and Communication V.Ivanov as well as scientists from Russia, the US, France, Canada, Japan.

Nuclear Energy provides a means of producing electricity without adding to greenhouse gases and global warming. It is also a clean source of energy. However, there are issues such as safety, cost, waste and proliferation that for many years have prevented the public acceptance and expansion of nuclear power in western countries.

As the fossil energy is getting expensive and noticeably affecting the environment, the nuclear power is again becoming attractive, and provides us with the opportunity to design fuel cycles that are safe, economical, proliferation resistant and minimize waste. While nuclear power has predominantly been a safe and secure power source producing electricity, there are other applications such as production of hydrogen that will lead to contribution to transport sector

For detailed information contact (831) 241–77–66, e-mail: pressa@okbm.nnov.ru

The web-site of the seminar is http://www.fuel-2007.nnov.ru/