Kazakh and
UK scientists win prestigious NATO Science
Prize
The NATO Science Partnership Prize
for 2007 will be awarded to scientists from
Kazakhstan and the
United
Kingdom for excellent collaboration in a
NATO-sponsored project on radiological risk in
Kazakhstan. The Prize will be awarded by the NATO
Deputy Secretary General in a ceremony at NATO Headquarters on Thursday, 22 March 2007.
Professor Mukash Burkitbayev
(Kazakhstan) and Professor Nick Priest (UK) will receive the prize for their
work assessing radioactive contamination at the nuclear test site at
Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, which was operated by the former Soviet Union.
Within this site (approximate size
18 500 square kilometres) over 450 nuclear devices were detonated over a 40-year
period ending in 1989. The facility was officially closed by the Kazakh
government in 1992. In a recent visit to NATO Headquarters, the President of
Kazakhstan highlighted this NATO-sponsored activity as being of particular
importance to his nation.
The high-quality radiological
laboratory set up under this project at the al Farabi National University in Almaty provides
Kazakhstan with a much needed capability to
analyse radiation risks. The laboratory also provides a means for training young
Kazakh scientists.
The Prize consists of a €10,000
grant to each of the winners to support their further research, as well as an
official certificate and a special crystal trophy.
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