OREANDA-NEWS. April 20, 2007. The 1st public dialogue forum “Nuclear Energy, Society, Security” took place in Moscow on Apr 18–19
Attending the forum were representatives of Russian and international public and ecological organizations, administrations of the NPP satellite towns, Rosatom and Rosenergoatom officials, scientists.

During the forum the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko said: “It is very important that we are discussing nuclear safety problems in the format of a dialogue: the development of nuclear energy in the world — as a guarantee of stable energy supply in the future – will be impossible unless the society understands that nuclear energy is safe. This forum is one more step towards the transparency of the sector. We very much want people to be aware of the present state of the modern nuclear industry and to trust it. Stability and safety are the key features of power engineering in the 21st century.”

President of Russian Green Cross Sergey Baranovsky pointed out that this forum is a great achievement. Rosatom’s policy of openness and transparency encourages public organizations to get actively involved in the development of rational approaches to radiation safety and in the adoption of decisions concerning health care and environment protection.

The deputy director general-director for scientific policy of Rosenergoatom Vladimir Asmolov reported on the priority projects and the key development tendencies in the sphere. “The present nuclear renaissance has become possible due to the active employment of the capacities we have always had. Today, we know enough to realize that we must respect nuclear energy in order to make it safe. We have specific quality requirements and we are actively informing the public of them. Our priorities are guaranteed security, economic efficiency and renewability. Our present engineering capacities allow us to solve the problem of nuclear and radioactive waste. Those are our goals and all our actions are aimed at attaining them.”

The key topics of the forum were the state and development prospects of nuclear energy, the medical-biological and social-economic aspects of the use of nuclear energy. Attending the meeting were representatives of 12 countries involved in the international program for nuclear safety and nonproliferation. They made reports on the implementation of Global Nuclear Energy Partnership programs.