A regional seminar titled “Closure, long-term surveillance and maintenance of areas after the rehabilitation process” kicked off on Monday in Kempinski Hotel Badamdar, Baku within the framework of the joint project “Support for environmental remediation programs” launched by Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The seminar is attended by about 70 delegates from Azerbaijan, the UK, Bulgaria, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and IAEA.
Greeting the seminar participants, Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, medical service Lt Gen Faig Taghizadeh noted the importance of the event for environmental protection in the region.
Other speakers of the seminar – Andrei Chupov, a representative of the IAEA Department of Technical Cooperation, Horst Richard Monken Fernandes, the head of the IAEA Department of Nuclear Energy Division, and Vugar Huseynov, the acting head of the MES State Agency for Regulation of Nuclear and Radiological Activity, talked of the most modern methodologies used in the closure, long-term surveillance and maintenance of restored facilities, and made slideshows about the projects on clearing the areas polluted with oil products and other wastes that were successfully implemented by the State Agency for Regulation of Nuclear and Radiological Activity under the MES leadership in Azerbaijan`s Neftchala district and Ramada settlement of Baku.
The seminar continues.
Ministry of Emergency and IAEA organize seminar in Baku
07 September 2015
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