Conference “Nuclear Safety Today“ – 25 November 2019

Nuclear technologies are a valuable legacy of our civilization, but fear is what, more often than not, inhibits us from understanding and truly benefiting from the advantages of nuclear technologies for humanity. It is fear that also prevents us from being INFORMED – and, based on ACCURATE information, deciding whether and where we want to use these or not.

Key purpose of the conference “Nuclear Safety Today”, which was organized in the House of the National Assembly of Serbia on 25 November 2019, was to make the communication on these topics more available to the wider public, and to provide the public with the right information.

The conference was opened by Maja Gojkovic, the Speaker of the National Assembly of Serbia, who is also the Chairperson of the Board of Serbian Radiation and Nuclear Safety and Security Directorate. Other speakers at the opening were Sladjan Velinov, Director of the Directorate (SRBATOM), Prof. Vladimir Popovic, State Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, Prof. Snezana Pajovic, Acting Director of the “Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences”, and Dalibor Arbutina, Acting Director of PC Nuclear Facilities of Serbia (NOS).

Below you can see the entire programme and video segments of the conference.

Panel 1 – Nuclear Safety – past and present

Participants: Dr Djordje Lazarevic – Deputy Head of Department for Development and Application of Nuclear Technologies at PC Nuclear Facilities of Serbia, Mr Zoran Drace – Head of INPRO Section at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vedrana Vuletic – Head of Unit for Monitoring, Control and Emergency Situations at SRBATOM, moderator: Marina Kosanovic

Panel 2: Radiation benefits – applications in industry and medicine

Participants: Dr Sanja Vranjes Djuric – Director of Department of Radioisotopes at Vinca Institute, Dr Milovan Matovic – Clinical Centre of Kragujevac, Dr Ivica Vujcic- Head of Dosimetry at Department of Radiation Chemistry and Physics at Vinca Institute, Milan Vujovic – Head of Department of Radiation Practice and Nuclear Activity Control at SRBATOM, moderator: Nemanja Velikic, Pink TV

Panel 3: Radioactive waste and nuclear material

Participants: Dr Milutin Jevremovic – Head of Radioactive Waste Management Department at PC Nuclear Facilities of Serbia, Prof. Darko Trifunovic – Director of Institute for National and International Security, Vladimir Janjic – Assistant Director/Head of Inspection at SRBATOM, moderator: Sanja Radan – journalist

Panel 4: Regulations, control, communication with the public and the phenomenon of Chernobyl in popular culture

Participants: Dr Bojan Radak – Advisor to Director at SRBATOM, Radmila Djordjevic Medenica – Director of Foreign Trade at Vinca Institute, Prof. Goran Milasinovic – Cardiologist and author, Robert  Coban – Color Media Communications, moderator: Bojan Bilbija, Politika

Source: Color Media Communications