Visit of Japanese delegation to National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

On December 13, 2012, the Head of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine held a meeting with the Japanese delegation which consisted of the committee chair of the Information System on Occupational Exposure (ISOE), counsellor of the Japanese Nuclear Safety Organization, Professor of the University of Tokyo, Wataru Mizumachi, Professor of Hokkaido University, Tadashi Narabayashi and the attaché of the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine, Hiroyuki Egawa.

The meeting was organized on the initiative of two embassies – the Embassy of Ukraine in Japan and the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine. The number of burning issues were discussed during the meeting, among them the status and methods of decontamination of forests, fields and farms after the Chernobyl disaster, and the impact which the Fukushima disaster had on the agricultural policy in Ukraine.

The Japanese delegation also visited Ukrainian Research Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Ukrainian laboratory of Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products, both of which are structural units of Ukrainian Educational and Scientific Institute of Bioresources and Life Safety of NUBiP of Ukraine.