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General information about the national YG network

From the start of UkrNS existence the UkrNS Board and Secretariat take care for youth and children. In 1994 there was created the UkrNS young generation section. There are schoolchildren, students and young staff of the Ukrainian NPPs and NAEK «Energoatom» in this section.

Briefly list that UkrNS has made. In the first order it is the tradition annual conference «Youth and Nuclear Energy». The first such conference was held in 1994. In 1996 the third conference was international and had a good affect. The topic of the forth youth conference (autumn 1997) was proposed by the young nuclear branch staff. It was «Safety culture and production quality». Papers of each conference were published as a book. Last conference was held at Sevastopol in July 2003.

Staff of the UkrNS secretariat and the leaders of young section contact with personnel of the children libraries, schools in Odessa, Slavutich, Kuznetsovsk, South-Ukrainsk, Neteshin. There were gave lectures on nuclear topics. The UkrNS Secretariat assisted in organizing of the aimed excursion of the schoolchildren and students to the Ukrainian NPPs.

Every year the UkrNS young section organize All-Ukrainian competition of the papers among the children that lives in towns near Ukrainian NPPs by the name of «Nuclear Energy: Yes and No». In the frame of the competitions there are the “round tables” on differents young people problems take place.

Youth of the Ukrainian Nuclear Society take part in the festival «Disnay» of the young NPP workers.

There are some materials on young topics in the each issue of the Ukrainian Nuclear Society magazine «UkrNS news».

The methodical commission, which was created by UkrNS, solves problems on training and preparing of the young generation workers in the Ukrainian universities. The commission consists from the representatives of the NPPs, NAEK “Energoatom”, the Ukrainian universities and has a status of adviser for nuclear branch leaders.