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Paks Nuclear Power Plant Ltd, P.O. Box 71, H-7031 Paks; tel. +36 75 505 000, fax +36 1 355 1332; contact Balazs Kovats.
Products/Services/Activities: Electricity production, heat output and supply by 4 3 460 MWe PWRs (VVER-440, V-213).

Polimaster Ltd, 112, M. Bogdanovich Street, 22040 Minsk, Belarus; tel. + 375 17 217 70 80/288 35 64/262 86 65, fax +375 17 217 70 81, e-mail polimaster@polimaster.com, http://www.polimaster.com; contact Yury Kurlovich
Products/Services/Activities: Polimaster develops and produces various types of equipment for radiation control, safety and protection. The product range covers: portal monitors to control railway, vehicular and passenger traffic as well as to monitor scrap and luggage; universal survey meters to detect and measure alpha, beta, gamma and neutrons; a wide range of alarming ratemeters to search and locate gamma sources; a family of pocket and wrist dosimeters with IR interfaces to communicate with a PC. These instruments can be used in different spheres, including cross-boundary control of illicit trafficking of radioactive and special nuclear materials. Polimaster has a number of partners who represent Polimaster products worldwide.

Paul Scherrer Institute, nuclear energy and safety, CH-5232 Villigen PSI; tel. +41 56 310 26 92, fax +41 56 310 44 11, e-mail Konstantin.Foskolos@psi.ch, http://nes.web.psi.ch; contact Konstantin Foskolos.
Products/Services/Activities: Reactor physics, PROTEUS critical facility; fuel cycle technology and assessment; plant transients; thermal-hydraulics, PANDA facility for integral tests of passive safety systems; PIE, fully equipped hot-laboratory, shielded SIMS; SLS synchrotron light source; microXAS beamline; cladding corrosion of high-burnup fuels; ageing of reactor components, autoclaves for stress-corrosion-cracking investigations; modeling and experiments, safety assessment of final repositories; severe accident analyses, DRAGON facility for aerosol behavior.