Objectives

Visit to Decommissioned Reactor at UKAEA's Harwell Site

• Familiarize Russian delegation members with all aspects of technology commercialisation and sustainable economic development in Oxfordshire, one of Europe's leading centres for high-technology commercialisation.
• Introduce Russian delegation members to a wide variety of senior managers responsible for various stages of the innovation process and help them develop a network of potential commercial contacts.

Summary

The week began with a visit to the state run nuclear research institute at Harwell, managed by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Representatives from UKAEA discussed their experiences of a complex conversion situation and the current roles of UKAEA in decommissioning the research legacy and managing Harwell as a commercial business. Delegation members visited high-technology business incubators and met with a several companies specializing in financing start-up technology companies. They also met with a variety of government organizations and institutions that provide multiple types of support for innovation in Oxfordshire and promote economic development in Southeast England.

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Siberian Chemical Kombinat, Seversk

• Seversk Polytechnical Institute, Seversk
• All Russian Scientific and Research Institute for Technical Physics, Snezhinsk
• All Russian Scientific and Research Institute for Experimental Physics, Sarov
• Avangard, Sarov
• Mining and Chemical Kombinat, Zheleznogorsk
• Uralsk Electrochemical Kombinat, Novouralsk
• City Administration officials from Zheleznogorsk, Sarov, Novouralsk, and Snezhinsk.
• Representatives from the Departments of Conversion, International Relations, and Protection of Information and Nuclear Materials, Federal Agency for Atomic Energy Department.

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