Tour for students of “Contofield” International School to the Regional Education and Training Centre and Laboratory of the CBRN Safety and Security Agency of the Republic of Tajikistan
29 November 2023, as part of the activities of the WiN Global "Khonumi Yadroi" National Chapter (WiN Tajikistan) to promote interest in science among young people, a study tour to the Regional Educational Training Centre for CBRN Security and Combating WMD Terrorism and the laboratory of the CBRN Safety and Security Agency of the Republic of Tajikistan was organised by Ekaterina Don, a biology and geography teacher, for students in grades 10-11 at the Contofield International School.
The purpose of the event was to familiarise students with scientific research in the field of nuclear and radiation safety and methods of radionuclide monitoring of Tajikistan's biosphere.
Zarina Saifieva, Director of the Regional and Educational Centre for CBRN Security and Combating WMD Terrorism, President of the National Chapter of WiN Tajikistan "Khonumi Yadroi" has informed the students about the main activities of the training centre and the CBRN Safety and Security Agency.
Yana Pavlovna Dovgyallo, leading researcher of the Institute of Economics and Demography of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, PhD in Economics, member of the National Chapter of WiN Tajikistan "Khonumi Yadroi" in her presentation "Fundamentals of Ecology" introduced students with the global environmental problems and possible ways to solve them. During her speech, Yana Pavlovna focused on what each of us needs to change and how to organise our own relationship with the environment in order to minimize the anthropogenic load.
Mehrovar Boboerov, Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Senior Research Officer of the Laboratory of the CBRN Safety and Security Agency of the Republic of Tajikistan and Muminov Safarali, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Head of the Sector for Control of Radiation Exposure of Patients and Population told about the research conducted in the laboratory, demonstrated modern equipment that has no analogues in the country.
Mehrovar Boboerov emphasised that one of the main areas of the laboratory is radiation monitoring of the environment and showed how soil, water and ground samples are prepared for analysis. The students were very interested in the Nuclear Forensics Laboratory, which assists in the investigation of offences related to illicit trafficking of nuclear material.
The excursion turned out to be informative and interesting and allowed a new vision of scientific research in the field of nuclear and radiation safety.