On November 29, 2023, as part of activities of WiN Tajikistan to encourage interest to the science among young people the introductory tour to the Regional Educational and Training center on CBRN safety and security and WMD counter-terrorism and the laboratory of CBRN Safety and Security Agency of NAST was carried out for high school students of the International School “Contofield” by Ekaterina Don – the teacher of biology and geography.

The aim of the event was to familiarize students with scientific researches in the field of nuclear and radiation safety, methods of radionuclide monitoring of the biological environment of Tajikistan.

Zarina Sayfieva - Director of Regional Educational and Training center on CBRN safety and security and WMD counter-terrorism, President of WiN Tajikistan, told students about the main activities of the training center and the CBRN Safety and Security Agency.

Yana Dovgyallo - leading researcher of the Institute of Economics and Demography of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, PhD, member of WiN Tajikistan, in her presentation “Fundamentals of Ecology,” introduced students with global environmental problems and possible ways to solve them. During her speech, Yana focused on what each of us needs to change and how to organize our own relationship with the environment in order to minimize the anthropogenic load.   

Boboerov Mehrovar, Ph.D., senior researcher at the laboratory of the CBRN Safety and Security Agency of the Republic of Tajikistan and Muminov Safarali, Ph.D., Head of the Patient and Public Exposure Control Sector, spoke about the research carried out in the laboratory, demonstrated modern equipment which has no analogues in the republic. 

Boboerov Mehrovar emphasized that one of the main directions of lab work is radiation monitoring of the environment, and showed how soil, water, air samples are prepared for analysis. The Nuclear Forensics Laboratory, which assists in the investigation of crimes related to the illicit trafficking of nuclear material, aroused great interest among students.

The excursion turned out to be informative and interesting, allowing to take a fresh look at scientific research in the field of nuclear and radiation safety.