International experts will familiarize themselves with the radiation incident response point at the Polotsk border detachment

August 25, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. Japanese and European experts will get acquainted with the radiation incident response point at the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment, the head of the press service of the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment Denis Glebko informed a BELTA correspondent.

A Japanese delegation and representatives of the European Commission, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the State Border Committee of Belarus will visit the Polotsk Border Guard Detachment on August 29-30 in connection with the completion of the Belarusian-Japanese RADBEL project. Here they will get acquainted with the regional radiation incident response point, equipped with equipment within the framework of the RADBEL project. The visit program also includes a meeting of experts with the leadership of Polotsk.

The international technical assistance project "Modernization of the system for countering illicit trafficking of nuclear and radioactive materials at the state border of Belarus" (RADBEL) was signed on July 2, 2010, between the Technical Secretariat of the Japanese Committee for Cooperation on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and the State Border Committee. Its budget was $1 million. The project provided for the creation of mobile laboratories for operational and operational-strategic response to facts of illicit trafficking of nuclear and radioactive materials at the border. One year was allocated for the implementation of the project.-0-