Official: Qatar stands for peaceful use of N-energy

The 9th International Conference on Isotopes (ICI) and its associated exhibition, organised by Qatar Physics Society and the World Council on Isotopes (WCI), are now underway in partnership with several local and international organisations and will continue until next Thursday.
Assistant Under-Secretary for Public Services Affairs at the Ministry of Municipalities and Environment, H E Sheikh Faleh bin Nasser Al Thani, stressed that Qatar pays special attention to the development of its institutions concerned with the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and includes them in its future plan for sustainable development.
He said that within the framework of the Qatar National Vision 2030, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment has prepared ambitious and extensive projects in this field in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), including strengthening the regulatory infrastructure for security, radiation and nuclear safety, which involves the legislative and regulatory framework, the development of human resources and the building of national capacities to prepare and respond to radiological and nuclear emergencies and to benefit from the peaceful applications of nuclear energy in the various developmental fields, primarily industry, human health and the environment and management of water resources, food and agriculture.
The Assistant Under-Secretary pointed out that the ministry is the regulatory authority for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy in the country. It is also the national focal point with IAEA for technical cooperation. It is responsible for preparing national projects for peaceful uses of nuclear energy and the following up of their implementation, as well as the control of radiation and nuclear safety and security, and the control of the transport of radioactive sources and disposal of radioactive wastes, and the implementation of continuous radiological monitoring and environmental radiological measurements of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. The ninth ICI discusses seven axes, including isotopic production and instrument, isotopic research and applications and isotopes in the environment, security of supply, safety, transport, quality assurance, quality control, policy and economics, global influence of isotopic production and its design, construction, operation and shutdown.