Energy Bangla

Third foreign atomic energy information centre will be open in Dhaka (Bangladesh) on the 2nd of October. It is expected that the prime minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wajed, director general of the State Corporation “Rosatom” Sergey Kiriyenko, representatives of branch enterprises and the nuclear innovation consortium of Russia, and the chief executives of the pedagogical and scientific society will participate in the grand opening ceremony of the centre situated in the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novotheatre.
The opening of the atomic energy information centre in Dhaka will become the result of implementation of the Memorandum signed on the 4th of June 2012 on the intentions between the State Corporation “Rosatom” and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.
The information centre is a modern high-tech cinema combining panoramic 3D projection, computer graphics and animation, stereo sound, interactive consoles and personal monitors. The main educational programme the Journey to the World of Nuclear Energy is presented at the information centre in Bengali, Russian and English languages. The arsenal of the centre includes six other educational programmes on astronomy, natural science and area studies. The information centre is equipped with mock-ups and exhibits, which clearly demonstrate the peculiarities of the safety systems of Russian nuclear power plants and natural elements of radiation.
The target audience of the centre will become school children, students, teachers of the secondary and higher educational institutions, representatives of government, public organisations and mass media information. The personnel of the new information centre will have to actively undertake educational activities: spread basic knowledge of nuclear energy, tell about application of Russian nuclear technologies in agriculture and medicine. School children and their parents will be able to learn about the most coveted specialities in the nuclear sector, and about the possibility of obtaining Russian nuclear education.
On the opening day Dhaka residents and guests of the ceremony will be able to attend the presentation on Russian nuclear institutes of higher education and receive information products in Bengali and English languages.
From 2008 atomic energy information centres are being successfully established in the regions of presence of nuclear enterprises. At the moment 17 atomic energy information centres, which were visited by 900 thousand people, are successful operating in Russia. Development of the atomic energy information centre network abroad is planned in the countries using Russian technologies for construction of enterprises in the nuclear sector. In 2012 the first foreign information centres were open in Hanoi (Vietnam), and Mersin (Turkey). Opening of the information centre in Istanbul is planned for 2013 and in Minsk (Belarus) in 2014.