OREANDA-NEWS. July 30, 2009. As part of the preparations for the new season, the specialists of Tomsk Information Center for Nuclear Energy presented its educational programs for teachers of Toms and Seversk universities. On that day they received representatives of the administration of Tomsk region, journalists, students of Seversk State Technological Academy and schoolchildren – the future entrants to Tomsk Polytechnic University.

The guests were impressed with the center’s equipment, design and methods of presenting information about such complex subject as nuclear power engineering. Head of the General Education Department of the Administration of Tomsk region Leonid Glok expressed wish to see such programs implemented at local universities. Today it is very important that such visits dispel people’s fear of nuclear energy. He said that the center had to receive not only children but also their parents and teachers.

This year Tomsk Information Center, jointly with the administration of Tomsk region, is planning to organizet a contest of children’s drawings “Our Friend – Nuclear Energy.” On Sept 1 and 28 the Center will mark the Day of Nuclear Worker, on Nov 12 – its birthday.

Tomsk is one of the three cities (Voronezh and Moscow) having information centers for nuclear energy acting under the aegis of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation with the support of Atomenergoprom OJSC. The key mission of the centers is to tell schoolchildren about nuclear energy and nuclear power engineering. The centers also have training programs on geography, astronomy and national studies.