Mikhail Grishankov, first vice chairman of State Duma Safety Committee

– Information center is also a forum for discussion helping to disperse fears and to enlist public support

Information Center for Nuclear Energy was opened in Voronezh Jan 29 2009. This is the third such center opened in the framework of a special program of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation with the support of Atomenergoprom OJSC and Energoatom Concern OJSC. Similar centers will shortly be organized in many other regions hosting nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities. The Center is supposed to contact with schoolchildren, their parents, public organizations, mass media and authorities and to inform them about nuclear energy and nuclear power engineering. It will have a special multimedia program “Voyage into the World of Nuclear Energy,” which will be shown to all visitors. Schoolchildren and their parents will be offered to attend special courses on astronomy, geography, national studies and other subjects.

The establishment of information centers for nuclear energy is one of the key directions of the work to ensure public and political support for the nuclear industry. I remember the colossal effect of the opening of such a center in Chelyabinsk region. Information center is also a forum for discussion helping to disperse fears and to enlist public support.

Such centers will enhance information security of our country and will help to prevent spreading of rumors damaging the image of nuclear energy.