Roles and Activities of RCARO Workshop on Partnership Promotion and Sustainable Development, 79 July

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Roles and Activities of RCA-ROWorkshop on
Partnership Promotion and Sustainable
Development, 7-9 July, 09, ROK

• Sueo Machi,
• Adviser to the MEXT, Japan
• Former DDG of IAEA

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I. Partnership Promotion Activities with Other
Organization

• Financial support for specific projects of mutual
  interests
• Joint activities of common interests with joint
  funding

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Possible Partners and Fields of Common
Interests-1

• 1. UNEP(1) Monitoring and analysis of
  environmental pollution using NAA in Asian region
• (2) Strategy study of CO2 reduction in RCA MS
  by the best-mixed energy including nuclear power

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Possible Partners and Fields of Common Interests-2

• 2. Asian Development Bank
• Sustainable agriculture for reduction of
  poverty
• (1) Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), Thailand,
• Philippines, Indonesia and others
• (2) Mutation breeding for disease resistant
  banana varieties

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Possible Partners and Fields of Common Interests-3

• 3. UNDP
• Improving industrial process
• (1) Electron beam processing
• - Cross-linking polymers
• - Sterilization of medical supplies
• (2) NDT
• - Training courses, basic facilities

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II. Dissemination of Successfully Achieved
Technology by RCA

• 1. Training courses on the specific success
  technology developed by RCA in KAERI
• 2. Open seminar on RCA success stories for the
  public, stake holders and potential end-users of
  technology and products in MS
• 3. National TC Projects on the RCA success
  technology in MS

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Issues on RCA-RO

• IAEA Policy on Regional Cooperation
• - Transfer of management responsibility to
  the region
• Delegation of authority to RCA-RO legal status
• Funding Host Gov., IAEA and MS
• Demarcation of jobs with RCA-IAEA Sharing
  management responsibility

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How to Strengthen RCA-RO

• Strengthening coordination and cooperation with
  the RCA focal person and Asia Section
• Cooperation with IAEA-NA and NE for CRP
• Enhancement of support by RCA MS funding and
  staff
• Strengthening support by and linkage with KAERI
  and KOICA