IAEA Director General visits National Nuclear Research Center

As part of his official visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano visited the National Nuclear Research Center CJSC under the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies.

During the visit, Yukiya Amano was accompanied by Agency’s director of Division of Technical Cooperation Coordination and Software Martin Krause, representatives of the Ministries of Transport, Communications and High Technologies, Emergency Situations, and Foreign Affairs.

The guests familiarized themselves with the departments, complexes of the National Nuclear Research Center and results obtained. They were informed in detail about the gamma-radiation complex for sterilization, the complex of the research nuclear reactor, technical capabilities of the innovation and instrument making departments, nuclear spectroscopy and radiochemistry, radiation material science and radiation nanotechnologies, the mobile expedition sector and workforce capacity

The guests highly appreciated the results obtained by the Center.

Then, Yukiya Amano and chairman of the National Nuclear Research Center, academician Adil Garibov held discussions on two national projects implemented jointly with the National Nuclear Research Center within the framework of the IAEA’s technical cooperation programme.

Yukiya Amano said it would be expedient to create jointly a research nuclear reactor and development of nuclear and radiation technologies, which were discussed at the meeting with President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. He expressed readiness for cooperation in these areas.

The Director General also highly appreciated the projects implemented by the Republic of Azerbaijan in the use of nuclear energy, nuclear and radiation technologies for peaceful purposes.

At the meeting, it was also highlighted that it is important and necessary to launch a gamma-radiation complex as soon as possible for sterilization, increasing the productivity and sustainability of crops, and also the great scientific and practical significance of radiation development in modifying the physical, mechanical, chemical properties of rubber polymer, elastomeric and composite materials.