COUNTRY REPORT MONGOLIA RCA WORKING LEVEL STAFF WORKSHOP, 1418 JUNE 2004, DAEJEON, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

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COUNTRY REPORT - MONGOLIA  RCA WORKING LEVEL
STAFF WORKSHOP, 14-18 JUNE 2004,DAEJEON,
REPUBLIC OF KOREA

• Ts.DAMDINSUREN
• Executive Secretary
• Nuclear Energy Commission, Government of
  Mongolia
• Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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INTRODUCTION

• Mongolia is a land-locked country in
  the heart of east Central Asia with large area of
  approximately 1.5 mln sq.km. territory and a
  population of 2.4 mln people. To the north
  Mongolia borders with Russia and to the south
  with Peoples Republic of China.

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• Mongolia is a non-nuclear country,
  since there are no nuclear power plants and
  research reactors. The application of nuclear
  energy is limited. Currently, radiation sources
  and radioactive substances are used in the
  following social and economical sectors of our
  country
• - Health (radiotherapy and medical diagnostics)
• - Animal husbandry and Agriculture
• - Industry, Geology and Mining
• - Science and Education
• - Natural Environment
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• Now in Mongolia we use the following
  basic equipments in nuclear and radiation
  research and practice
• - Electron accelerator-Microtron
• - Neutron generator
• - Californium-252 source
• - Cobalt-60 source  

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The Nuclear Energy Commission

• The Nuclear Energy Commission (NEC) of
  the Government of Mongolia was established in
  1962. NEC is responsible for development of
  national policy for the activities relating
  to development of nuclear research and
  technology, use of radiation sources, and to
  ensure radiation protection and waste management
  safety. The Member of the government in charge
  of science issues is a chairman of the Nuclear
  Energy Commission. Organizational structure of
  the NEC is given in figure 1.

THE NUCLEAR ENERGY COMMISSION GOVERNMENT OF
MONGOLIA










CHAIRMAN










VICE CHAIRMAN

MEMBERS









EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
RCA NATIONAL





REPRESENTATIVE














ISOTOPE CENTRE
RCA NATIONAL



COUNTERPARTS







FICTURE 1



ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
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THE RCA ACTIVITIES IN MONGOLIA

• Mongolia became the 15th official member of the
  RCA on October 19, 1992. Since that time our
  country has been actively participating in the
  RCA activities.
• In October of 1993 Dr.John Easey, worked
  as the RCA Co-ordinator, paid a three days
  official visit to Mongolia and gave a lecture on
  the policy, objectives and co-operation of Member
  States of the RCA. I am pleased to emphasize that
  the discussion on co-operation was great
  significance.
• The Expert Advisory Group Meeting on Radon
  Monitoring was held in September 15-19, 1997 in
  Ulaanbaatar. Seven experts from Japan, China,
  Bangladesh, Australia, Vietnam and IAEA
  Technical Officer, as well as about 20
  specialists from several research institutes and
  universities of our country participated in this
  meeting.

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IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURES OF RCA EVENTS IN OUR
COUNTRY

• In our country the Executive
  Secretary of the Nuclear Energy Commission,
  Government of Mongolia is acting as the RCA
  National Representative and he is in charge of
  all RCA activities. There is not the RCA working
  level staff in this commission.
• The RCA National Representative is
  responsible for the following duties
• 1. Expand the co-operation between RCA and our
  country, develop the policy.
• 2. Implement and co-ordinate all activities in
  the frames of RCA.
• 3. Identify the projects in which available is
  to participate, put forward proposals for new
  projects.
• 4. Select, appoint and assist the national
  co-ordinators of RCA projects, inform the RCA
  Co-ordinator and Technical Officers.
• 5. Provide the national co-ordinators of RCA
  projects with management and relevant
  information.
• 6. Select the specialists and propose as
  candidates for participating in the RCA events in
  consultation with the national co-ordinators of
  RCA projects.  
• 7. Deliver the materials of candidates for
  participating in the meetings for the national
  co-ordinators of RCA projects, regional workshops
  and training courses.

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• The national co-ordinators of RCA projects
  are carrying the following duties
• Implement the project, provide the National
  Representative with the relevant informations.
• Select the specialists and propose as candidates
  for participating in regional workshops and
  training courses, organizing in the frames of RCA
  activities.
•  Provide preparation work for the meeting
  of National Co-ordinators of RCA projects,
  participate in the meeting.
•  Prepare the report on project results and
  deliver it to Technical Officer.  
•  The list of RCA Projects, in
  which our country participates in the frames of
  RCA activities and implementing organizations is
  given in the Table 1. As of today, our country is
  participating in activities of 18 RCA Projects,
  being implemented in the fields such as
  agriculture, health, energy, industry,
  environment and radiation protection.
• The National Co-ordinators of
  RCA projects were appointed and address contact
  telephones, faxes and E-mail address were
  delivered to the RCA Co-ordinator and Technical
  Officers.

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TABLE 1. LIST OF PARTICIPATING RCA PROJECTS FOR
MONGOLIA
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Since our country joined RCA the co-operation
with IAEA has developed and the opportunity for
nuclear technology applications has been
increased. The RCA Projects were effectively
implemented in our country.   The list of
participants from Mongolia in RCA activities in
2003 is given in the Table 2. In 2003, 18
specialists from Mongolia in the IAEA/RCA Project
Co-ordinators Meetings, regional workshops and
regional training courses.   Some of the results
are shown here the example of the implementation
of 2 projects.
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RESULTS OF RAS/6/036 PROJECT IN THE FIELD OF
HEALTH

• The five most common form of cancers are
  liver (34), stomach (15), lungs (12),
  esophagus (11) and womb (9). That means
  morbidity and mortality of liver cancer is first
  place of all cancer. Currently the main causes of
  death in Mongolia are liver cancer, accounting
  for 40 all cancer deaths. The incidence of liver
  cancer was 51.9 per 100 000 population.
• Liver cancer Radio nuclide treatment with Re-188
  Lipiodol has been performed since 1 April 2002 in
  Mongolia under RCA project. The phase I study
  was to determine the safety transarterial Re-188
  conjugated Lipiodol in the patients with
  inoperable HCC.
•   30 patients received one dose of
  radioconjugate, from which 10 patients retreated
  2 times and 1 patient 3 times.
• The total of 30 patients with 41 treatments
  covered the study were involved in the late
  stages of disease. The study showed that the
  treatment was safe with minimal side-effects at a
  dose up to 200 mCi Re-188-lipiodol.

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RESULTS OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE RESTING AND EVALUATION
(NDT/NDE) PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY

•   NDE Project Expert Mr.Shi Jihua from
  RCA Office in Bangkok was visited to Mongolia
  from 15-22 March 1995 to evaluate the current
  status of NDT application and specific industrial
  needs, to propose appropriate advice for futher
  actions by the IAEA. He was evaluated the NDT
  applications in Mongolia is not on the same scale
  or technical level as the other countries in RCA
  region.
• First national training course on
  Radiographic testing level 2 (RT-2) was held from
  9 March and to 4 April 1998 in Ulaanbaatar with
  IAEA/RCA expert and equipment (X-ray films and
  chemicals) assistance.
• The IAEA/RCA expert Mr.Gursharan
  Singh from Bhabba Atomic Research Centre (BARC),
  Mumbai of India was attended in this course.
•   In results of Mongolia participation NDT
  projects were achieved following
• NDT manpower development for radiographic testing
  at level 3, for ultrasonic testing at level 2 and
  for surface testing methods at level 3.
• -ISO 9712 standard for qualification and
  certification of NDT personals and ISO 17025
  standard for accreditation of testing and
  calibration laboratories have been implemented
  with the NDT project Technical consultation.
• Since 1993, 18 specialists from
  Mongolia participated in the national
  co-ordinators meeting (4) and in the regional
  workshops (3) and training courses (11) and
  gained knowledge and experience in the field of
  NDT.

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THE RCA RO ACTIVITIES IN MONGOLIA

• The Government of Mongolia has been
  supporting the proposal to establish the RCA
  Regional Office (RO) and our representative
  participated in the official opening of this
  office.
• The following works were done in the frames of
  RCA RO activities and in the future we will
  actively participate in events, organizing of
  this office
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• 1. In 2002 there specialists for the RCA/KAIST
  Masters Degree Courses and two specialists for
  the RCA Post-doctoral Fellowship Training Program
  for 2002-2003 were proposed as candidates but
  they were not selected.
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• 2. Two specialists participated in 2001 and 2003
  in the KOICA/IAEA Training Course on Nuclear
  Power Policy, Planning and Project Management
  Daejeon, Korea of Republic.
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Thank you for your attention.