KARACHI – Former chief of Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority Dr Jamshed Hashmi has said that nuclear safety and environmental regulations are practiced in Pakistan as per international norms and standards of (IAEA).
“In Pakistan, safety and environmental regulations are being practiced as per international norms and standards of IAEA and the authority is working as watchdog of IAEA in Pakistan,” said Dr Hashmi while addressing the scientists and researchers at a seminar on peaceful application of nuclear technology.
In his welcome address, Pakistan Nuclear Society president Dr Syed Javaid Khurshid said that nuclear industry has a big stake in climate change mitigation, politics and policies and scenario. “Environmentally, nuclear is low carbon source of energy and can help avoid CO2 emission while providing a constant large scale power supply,” he said.
He also said that the nuclear techniques impact on improvement of crop varieties especially wheat variety leaving an impact of 10% increase in its production. He mentioned that at present we are treating about 1.2 million patients at about 30 cancer facilities in the country but as occurrence data tells us we need about 30 more facilities to cater all the cancer patients in Pakistan.
He emphasized the public and private sector to enhance tertiary health care facilities in the country to deal with this scenario. The day-long seminar was organised by the Pakistan Nuclear Society to promote research and development in nuclear science, technology and allied disciplines and to develop awareness about the peaceful application of nuclear science and technology for public welfare in areas of power, agriculture, medicine and industry.
On the occasion, the speakers gave detailed presentations on the different aspects of nuclear energy in power production, agriculture, medicine and oncology and strict and efficient compliance with international safety procedure involved in these fields.
The seminar was held in four different sessions covering the topics of contribution of nuclear energy in power generation techniques in agricultural development, evolution of nuclear medicine instrumentation, evolution of radiotherapy equipment and stereotactic radio surgery, nuclear oncology, cancer screening programs and preventive oncology.
