11th International Scientific-Innovative Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Specialists “Polar Lights 2008” to be held in St.Petersburg

19.11.2007 // Press Center of Nuclear Power Industry

11th International Scientific-Innovative Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Specialists “Polar Lights 2008” is to be held in St.Petersburg Jan 28-Feb 1 2008

The subject of the conference is «Nuclear Future: Technologies, Safety and Ecology.»

The conference is a kind of review of nuclear energy-related research projects by students, post-graduates and young specialists of Russia and foreign countries.

The organizer of the conference is the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy, the Public Council of Rosatom, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, State Regional Education Center of Rosatom.

The conference is to take place at SREC.

The agenda of the conference includes: plenary session, thematic sections, intellectual contest, mass media contest, master classes.

The topics of the sections are as follows:

— economics of nuclear power engineering and resources
— safety of reactors and nuclear fuel cycle systems
— ecological aspects of the use of nuclear energy
— prospects of use of nuclear technologies
— youth and employment problems in nuclear power industry
— nuclear nonproliferation.

For participation in the conference, please, send application form to polarorg@mail.ru by no later than Dec 20 2007. If you wish to make a report you should send the main theses of your report in Russian and English. After selection, the jury will decide which projects will take part in the conference. For additional information see http://www.polar.mephi.ru, http://www.polarlights.ru, you may also ask question at forum: http://polarlights. borda .ru.