THE SIXTH REGIONAL MEETING ON RADIATION SOURCES REGULATORY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM, TBILISI, GEORGIA

The U.S. NRC organized the sixth workshop on Radiation Sources Regulatory Partnership program. The workshop was held from 5 to 7 September in Tbilisi, Georgia. Participants represented the following countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Georgia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. Representatives from AdSTM/Qi Tech and U.S. NRC have attended the meeting.

Participants presented the status of finished and current work and accomplishments in improving state control of radiation sources and X-ray devices during the past years within the U.S. NRC assistance program and outside of the program. During the meeting, NRSC presented the new features of ARIS v2.2 and NUCMAT v3.1, how to install and uninstall the new version of the software and how to restore the database from older versions. All new features have been demonstrated to the participants.

In the workshop program was included also the presentation about the upcoming version of ARIS (v2.5). New features planned to implement in the next version of the software were presented. The new support websites of ARIS and NUCMAT also were demonstrated.

All suggestions, comments and requests from participants were discussed and recorded to promote onwards software improvements and to make software more comfortable and useful for all users.