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Dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of Semipalatinsk Test Site Closure VII International Conference SEMIPALATINSK TEST SITE RADIATION LEGACY AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

The Conference will be held in Kurchatov, East Kazakhstan Oblast at the premises of RSE “National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan” of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan., 19 - 24 September 2016

CONFERENCE ORGANISERS

  1. Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  2. Republican State Enterprise “National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan”
  3. Branch “Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology” of RSE NNC RK
  4. Branch “Institute of Atomic Energy” of RSE NNC RK

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Chairman:          Bakytzhan Mukhambetkaliyevich Dzhaksaliyev,
Vice-Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Members:

Burkhard Heuel-Fabianek (Germany)

Heleni Florou (Greece)

M.S. Tsistskishvili (Georgia)

Xiaolin Hou (Denmark)

Pier Roberto Danesi (Italy)

Juan Carlos Mora (Spain)

K.N. Apsalikov (Kazakhstan)

T.M. Zhantikin (Kazakhstan)

Brit Salbu (Norway)

Tamara Zhunusova (Norway)

Yu.V. Dubasov (Russia)

V.A. Pershukov (Russia)

N.I. Sanzharova (Russia)

A.V. Trapeznikov (Russia)

Artur Hopkins (USA)

Dusan Podhorsky (Slovakia)

Siegfried Hecker (USA)

V. Kashparov (Ukraine)

U.S. Salikhbaev (Uzbekistan)

Jiri Hulka (Czech Republic)

Yochi Fujii-e (Japan)

Shinji Yoshinaga (Japan)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chairman:        Erlan Gadletovich Batyrbekov, 
Director General of RSE NNC RK

Deputy Chairman:   Sergey Nikolayevich Lukashenko, 
Deputy Director General of RSE NNC RK for Radioecology – Director of Branch “IRSE” of RSE NNC RK

Members:

S.A. Berezin             – Deputy Director General of RSE NNC RK

G.P. Koztaeva          – Scientific Secretary of RSE NNC RK

N.O. Utenkova        – Head of PR Department of RSE NNC RK

A.O. Aidarkhanov   – Deputy Director for Applied Researches of Branch “IRSE” of RSE NNC RK

N.Zh. Kadyrova       – Scientific Secretary of Branch “IRSE” of RSE NNC RK

V.N. Dmitropavlenko  – Deputy Director for Production Operations of Branch “IRSE” of RSE NNC RK

M.K. Skakov           – Deputy Director General for Science of RSE NNC RK – Director of Branch “IAE” of RSE NNC RK

A.A. Kolodeshnikov – Deputy Director for Nuclear Technologies of Branch “IAE” of RSE NNC RK

A.D. Vurim              – Deputy Director for Testing of Branch “IAE” of RSE NNC RK

Z.I. Pyatova             – Head of Department for Scientific and Analytical Information and International Cooperation of Branch “IAE” of RSE NNC RK

A.N. Borisenko        – CEO of JSC “Park of Nuclear Technologies”

P.V. Chakrov          – Deputy Director General of RSE INP RK

K.M. Donbayev       – Deputy Director General for Development of RSE IGR RK

Secretary:

O.V. Seraya – Head of BSTI of Branch “IRSE” of RSE NNC RK

THEMES OF CONFERENCE

RADIOECOLOGICAL STATE OF VARIOUS RADIATION-HAZAR­DOUS OBJECTS INCLUDING VENUES OF NUCLEAR TESTS AND ACCIDENTS

  1. Rehabilitation of radiation-hazardous territories and transfer of lands to economic turnover.
  2. Current radioecological situation in venues of nuclear tests, dynamics and forecast of development.
  3. Peculiarities of radionuclides migration in different ecosystems.
  4. Radioanalytical methods in ecological researches.

ACTUAL RADIATION SAFETY PROBLEMS IN INDUSTRIAL AND MEDICAL SECTOR

  1. Problems of estimation, accountancy and control of radiation doses for residents and personnel.
  2. Individual dosimetric control. Problems of data estimation, analysis and interpretation.
  3. Individual dosimetry of personnel and residents from external sources of radiation and internal intake of radionuclides.
  4. Hardware and methodical support for control and post-evaluation of radiation doses.

REDUCTION OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION RISKS

  1. Liquidation of nuclear tests sites infrastructure.
  2. Liquidation of nuclear weapons tests consequences.
  3. Conversion of nuclear power facilities (HEU-LEU).
  4. Development of international nuclear tests control system.

DEVELOPMENT AND SAFETY OF NUCLEAR POWER

  1. Upgrading of research reactors.
  2. Safety of nuclear power facilities.
  3. Research of materials for nuclear, thermonuclear and hydrogen energy
  4. RW storage and processing.

Round table discussion on 
“The Former Semipalatinsk Test Site: 
Trilateral Cooperation and Collaboration on Non-Proliferation 
between Kazakhstan, Russia and USA”
is planning to be held.

VENUE OF CONFERENCE

The Conference will be held in Kurchatov, East Kazakhstan Oblast at the premises of RSE “National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan” of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Main venue of the Conference is the 54th building of the National Nuclear Center.

The information about sections location will be additionally provided.

ARRIVAL AND ACCOMODATION

The conference participants should inform the Conference Organizing Committee Secretariat about date and number of the flight (train) they would like to use to arrive to the closest airports (Semey, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Pavlodar) or the railway station (Semey, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Pavlodar, Degelen) to Kurchatov city by email seraya@nnc.kz, irbe@nnc.kz or tel./fax 8(722-51) 2-22-44, 8(722-51) 2-34-13 until the 12th of September, 2016. All participants of the Conference will be met in the airport, at the railway station and delivered to the hotels. The Secretariat will assist you to book a room. The Organizing Committee doesn’t ensure accommodation in a hotel and meeting of participants who haven’t provided information on their arrival. We also would like to ask you to arrange the return ticket in advance and provide the information on your departure to the Organizing Committee Secretariat.

Conference participants will be accommodated in hotels as follows:

Hotel “Mayak” ...........................    8 500 – 18 000 tenge

NNC Cottage ..............................  27 000 – 50 000 tenge

34, Olympisskaya St. ...................    3 500 –   6 000 tenge

VISA SUPPORT

of August, 2016 by email seraya@nnc.kz or by fax 8(72251) 2-22-44:

1)  Copy of passport

2)  Place of work, occupation

3)  Permanent residence address

4)  Place of visa receipt in your country

5)  Validity of visa

6)  List of cities planning for visit in the Republic of Kazakhstan

ARRANGEMENT FEE

Arrangement fee for participants from Kazakhstan and CIS countries is 50 USD and 250 USD for other countries in tenge according to MICE rate as of the date of payment.

Arrangement fee includes technical maintenance, collection of Conference abstracts, coffee breaks and official receptions, cultural program and tours. Arrangement fee can be paid in cash during registration or transferred before the 1st of September, 2016 to operating accounts of the Branch “Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology” of RSE NNC RK:

071100, EKO, Kurchatov town, 2, Krasnoarmeyskaya St.,
BIN 130441025754, 
General classificatory of companies & enterprises 38906708003, Beneficiary Code 16.

TENGE – “Kazkommetzbank” JSC, IIC KZ169260301168158000,
BIC KZKOKZKX

    USD  –  KZ869260301168158001, Kazkommertsbank, Kazakhstan, 
SWIFT code: KZKOKZKX

Bank of New York Mellon, NY, USA, 
SWIFT code: IRVT US 3N, Acc. 890-0223-057

    EUR –  KZ329260301168158003, Kazkommertsbank, Kazakhstan, 
SWIFT code: KZKOKZKX

Commertsbank AG, Germany, SWIFT code: COBA DE FF, 
Acc. 400/8866048/01EUR

    RUR –  KZ599260301168158002, JSC “Kazkommertsbank”, Kazakhstan, 
BIC KZKOKZKX, correspondent account 30111810400000000059

Public Company “Sberbank of Russia”, Moscow, Russia
BIC 044525225, correspondent account 30101810400000000225

TOURS AND CULTURAL PROGRAMME

Conference programme includes concert program as well as visit to museum of the former Semipalatinsk Test Site, tours to the objects located at its territory: “Experimental Field”, “Atomic Lake”, Tokamak KTM, IGR and IVG.1M reactors.

WEATHER

The weather in Kurchatov at the end of September is usually warm and sunny. Temperature in the day time is +22 °С, in the night time +15-20 °С.

For details – http://www.gismeteo.kz/city/daily/57737/

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Duration of paper presentation at the first day of the Conference at the plenary session is 20-30 minutes, at the second and the third days – 15-20 minutes including questions. The third day will be dedicated to poster presentations. Volume of the poster presentation should be 1-2 pages in A1 format. Duration of the poster paper session is a half-day.

Official languages of the Conference are English and Russian; the simultaneous translation of the papers will be provided.

To provide good quality simultaneous translation, speakers should in advance transfer the texts of their papers after arrival to Kurchatov town or send by e-mail to the Organizing Committee. It is planned to install 2 screens at the Conference, therefore the speakers are advised to have two presentations (in Russian and English).

Upon the Conference completion the Conference proceedings will be published. Proceedings of the Conference will be published in digital form and will be available online at www.nnc.kz and www.irse.kz.

Full text of papers (in Russian and English) should be sent to the conference secretariat until the October 31, 2016 in digital form (by e-mail to: seraya@nnc.kz as an attached file or on a disk in MS Word format). Please use Times New Roman font, with height of 12 pt.

Volume of plenary papers should not exceed 10 pages, volume of other papers should not exceed 6 pages of A4 format (210×297 mm) with the margins as follows: top – 25 mm; left – 25 mm; bottom – 25 mm; right – 15 mm. Title of the paper should be typed with capital letters. Pass 2 gaps after the title, and type initials and surnames of authors, name of organization, including the city and country they represent. After that, please pass 2 gaps and type the text of abstract with 1 gap between lines. Illustrations, tables and list of references should be included into the text of the paper.

KEY DATES

June 20, 2016           –  deadline for receipt of an application to participate in Conference and deadline for receipt of paper titles

July 18, 2016            –  deadline for abstracts receipt

October 31, 2016      –  deadline for receipt of papers to be printed in digital form

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

September 19-20, 2016 (Monday-Tuesday)

  • Arrival and registration of Conference participants       

September 21, 2016 (Wednesday)

  • Registration of participants............................... 09.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.
  • Opening of the Conference................................. 10.00 a.m. – 10.15 a.m.
  • Plenary session.................................................. 10.15 a.m. – 01.00 p.m.
  • Lunch................................................................. 01.00 p.m. – 02.30 p.m.
  • Plenary session.................................................. 02.30 p.m. – 05.30 p.m.
  • Round table discussion on the “Former Semipalatinsk Test Site: Trilateral Cooperation and Collaboration on Non-Proliferation between Kazakhstan, Russia and USA”
  • Formal reception................................................ 07.00 p.m.

September 22, 2016 (Thursday)

  • Sectional session ............................................... 09.30 a.m. – 01.00 p.m.
  • Lunch................................................................. 01.00 p.m. – 02.30 p.m.
  • Sectional session................................................ 02.30 p.m. – 05.30 p.m.
  • Cultural program............................................... 07.00 p.m.

September 23, 2016 (Friday)

  • Technical tours.................................................. 09.00 a.m. – 16.00 p.m.
  • Sectional session................................................ 09.30 a.m. – 01.00 p.m.
  • Lunch ................................................................ 01.00 p.m. – 02.30 p.m.
  • Poster presentations ......................................... 02.30 p.m. – 04.30 p.m.
  • Closing of the Conference.
    Summary of the Conference............................... 04.30 p.m.– 05.30 p.m.
  • Formal reception ............................................... 07.00 p.m.

September 24-25, 2016 (Saturday - Sunday)

  • Departure of Conference participants.

CONTACT DETAILS 
OF THE CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Branch “Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology” 
RSE “National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, 
2, Krasnoarmeyskaya St., Kurchatov, EKO, Republic of Kazakhstan, 071100

Conference Secretary: Olga V. Seraya
Tel./fax: 8(722-51) 2-22-44; 2-34-13
Fax: 8(722-51) 2-22-44
E-mail: seraya@nnc.kz
http://www.irse.kz