Experts Discussed Approaches to Building Public Acceptability of Nuclear Energy

On July 28, 2022, a meeting of the expert group of the CIS member states was held at the Branch of the CIS Executive Committee in Moscow using videoconferencing to agree on the draft Main Directions for Cooperation of the CIS Member States to Form the Public Acceptability of Nuclear Energy.

The event was attended by representatives of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Commission of the CIS Member States on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy and the CIS Executive Committee.

The meeting participants discussed proposals for the draft Main Directions of Cooperation and developed an agreed version of the document.

The main goals of interaction within the framework of this document are to expand public awareness of nuclear energy contribution to the sustainable development of the economy as a whole and its individual industries, the minimum impact on the environment, as well as to promote the exchange of experience, applied practices and methods to ensure the required level of information openness of nuclear energy.

The approved draft Guidelines are planned to be submitted for consideration by the supreme bodies of the CIS in the prescribed manner.