Success Stories
UK Input to Creation of Sustainable Employment for Weapons Scientists(27/37) The Closed Nuclear Centers Program (CNCP) is funded by the United Kingdom's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and represents the UK’s contribution to limiting the proliferation of expertise in weapons of mass destruction. Using the STCU partnership mechanism, in 2005 DTI contributed $103,100 for contracting two projects: one at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology in Ukraine, and the other at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Uzbekistan focused on market research and business planning for the manufacture of high-tech civil products using the Institutes' R&D capabilities.
Successful implementation of these projects has opened the next stage: an investment of $841,149 for creation of five sustainable spin-off companies with 100 permanent employments, 62 of which will be for scientists and engineers previously involved in the development of weapons of mass destruction.