CUSTOMIZING INFORMATION FOR THE WORK WITH POPULATION TO THE BENEFIT OF NUCLEAR POWER ENGINEERING
Introduction. Awareness-building activities contributing to public acceptance of nuclear power engineering require appropriate informational support, i.e. they require at least around one hundred books, journal articles, films, and conference proceedings. Furthermore, users will need some search engine to browse this data bank. Materials and Methods. The most obvious solution for this problem will be the use of widespread databases with embedded mechanisms of data storage and search. Moreover, the information should be organized according to some criteria, for example, the age of users ranging from the elementary-school age and through the retirement age with the focus on the young people (secondary school students and college students), adult population, and professional communities, i.e. journalists, teachers, medical workers, and local authority officials, etc. Results. By now RFNC-VNIITF specialists have created Access-2003 database with these materials for different population categories. This data format allows for the search engine providing access to a desired source papers within 1…2 steps. As a result, the user can easily search for the information needed by the title of a paper or its subtitle, authors, and key words. Discussion. Access-2003 features allow a user to make amendments in the database, i.e. add or remove source papers or add/remove or edit key words, etc. As a result, this will be a customized database meeting user's objectives and preferences. Conclusion. This work can be helpful to those involved in awareness-building activities and advocating further development of nuclear power engineering.