a working meeting of leaders of the Women in Nuclear Energy Network of Central Asia (WINCA) was held in Astana.

From January 27 to 30, a working meeting of leaders of the Women in Nuclear Energy Network of Central Asia (WINCA) was held in Astana. Experts from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan took part in the meeting. During the meeting, reports from the network coordinators were heard, interim results were summed up, and goals for further development were defined.

The event was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (Office of International Nuclear Security/Women in Nuclear Security Program) and Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).

On January 29, participants were given a technical tour of the Astana branch of the Institute of Nuclear Physics, where they were shown the DC-60 heavy ion accelerator complex, the track membrane technology laboratory, the solid state physics laboratory, and the nuclear physics laboratory.