Representatives of Leningrad NPP to take part in the 2nd Public Dialogue-Forum in St.Petersburg

17.04.2008 // Information Department of Leningrad NPP

Representatives of Leningrad NPP will take part in the 2nd Public Dialogue-Forum in St.Petersburg Apr 21–22

Rosatom Public Council, Russian Academy of Sciences and International Green Cross are organizing the 2nd Public Dialogue-Forum “Nuclear Energy, Society, Security.” The forum will take place in Pribaltiyskaya Hotel (St.Petersburg) on Apr 21–22. The objective of the forum is to discuss problems of nuclear and radiation safety in the territory of Russia with a view to establish a dialogue among all sections of Russian society about possible ways of safe development of nuclear power industry. Representatives from Austria, Belarus, the United States, France and Switzerland have confirmed their participation in the forum.

Representatives of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (branch of Rosenergoatom Concern) and its satellite city, Sosnovy Bor (Leningrad region), are planning to take an active part in the event. Particularly, the first deputy director of Nuclear Energy Institute of St.Petersburg State Polytechnic University, the former director of Leningrad NPP A.Yeperin and the member of the Public Expert Council of Sosnovy Bor L.Zernova will speak at the plenary session of the forum.

The vice mayor of Cotentin (France), the managing director of the European Center for Renewable Energy (Austria) and other foreign guests will make reports on ways to solve problems of safe use of nuclear technologies, state policies on ecological safety of nuclear power industry, prospects of use of alternative sources of energy, radio-biological problems and problems of reclamation of territories. The agenda of the second day includes discussions of ways to overcome the nuclear legacy of the Gold Water and the consequences of nuclear tests and “Sustainable Development: Atom and Civil Society.”

Note

Since Apr 1 2002 Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant has been the branch of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian State Concern for Production of Electric and Thermal Power at Nuclear Power Plants” (Rosenergoatom Concern).

Leningrad NPP enjoys a large geography of international contacts: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the UK, Germany, Canada. The plant has received journalists and NGO representatives from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, France, SAR, Tunisia, China, Korea, Taiwan, Belgium, Argentina and Italy; consuls general of Japan, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands; a delegation of the Consulate General of the United States; energy ministers of Denmark and Canada; senators from France and the US; a delegation of the European Parliament; the IAEA Director General.

The organizers of the 2nd International Public Dialogue-Forum “Nuclear Energy, Society, Security” are Rosatom Public Council, the Russian Academy of Sciences and International Green Gross.

The 1st forum took place in Moscow on Apr 18–19 2007. Over 140 people took part in it.