From April 1 to April 4, Askhat Bekbayev, Deputy Chief Engineer of the WWR-K Research Reactor, and Bakhtiyar Nurgozhayev, Head of the Experimental Critical Reactor of the Laboratory of Nuclear Energy Safety Problems, participated in the Workshop on the Research Reactor Database held at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna (Austria). The event was dedicated to the review of the international database on research reactors and the development of proposals for its updating.
Askhat Bekbayev presented a report on the WWR-K reactor and the experimental critical reactor, which are included in the IAEA database. As a result of the discussions, proposals were made to improve the informative value and completeness of the data presented.
At the end of the working visit, the Deputy Chief Engineer of the WWR-K reactor visited the Gunter Meelis Company (Idar-Oberstein, Germany), an important -partner of the Institute in the field of irradiation of semiprecious stones. During the meeting the prospects of further cooperation and development of joint projects were discussed.
