OREANDA-NEWS. January 27, 2009. An Information Center for Nuclear Energy will be opened in Voronezh on Thursday, Jan 29, 2009, in the framework of the target program of Atomenergoprom OSJC with the support of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, reports the press center of the Government of Voronezh region.

It will be the second such center after the Tomsk center. Similar centers will shortly be organized in many other regions hosting nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities.

The Center is supposed to contact with schoolchildren, their parents, public organizations, mass media and authorities and to inform them about nuclear energy and nuclear power engineering. It will have a special multimedia program “Voyage into the World of Nuclear Energy,” which will be shown to all visitors. Schoolchildren and their parents will be offered to attend special courses on astronomy, geography, national studies and other subjects.