UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2017. Rosatom State Corporation intends to focus on making Cobalt 60, a radioactive isotope used in cancer treatment, at Sverdlovsk Region’s Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station, the company press service reports. The plan is to start producing the isotope using the power station’s Power Generating Unit 4 BH 800 reactor. The radioactive cobalt variety (Co 60) enjoys stable demand on both the national and the international markets. The isotope is used for food sterilization and disinfection of medical appliances and materials as well as a grain and vegetable

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2017. ChTPZ Group and Sberbank Corporate University coordinated a conference called The Power of White Metallurgy this month, the Group’s press service reports. The conference was held on Sberbank Corporate University campus, with over fifty ChTPZ Group trainers (business managers and corporate workshop developers) attending. ‘Sberbank experts used the two-day conference slots to conduct group workshops on advanced visualization methods and audience interaction techniques for the Group’s corporate trainers,’ the press service says. Sberbank Corporate University

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 21, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s workout championship is in full progress in Chelyabinsk Region, the company press service reports. ‘The selection rounds of the championship will take place at the new workout sites and parks that Russian Copper Company got set up in Chelyabinsk Region towns of Karabash, Korkino, Pervomayskiy, Kyshtym, and Chelyabinsk this year. There will be eight selection rounds all in all, followed by finals in Chelyabinsk on Town Day (September 10). Prize-winning challenges and workshops for visitors to the show will be offered during the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 21, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region-based farmers’ poultry output declined by 6.4% in April 2017 compared with April 2016, Sverdlovskstat reports. The number of head of cattle declined by 1.3% in July 2017, that of pigs and goats/sheep rose by 0.2% and 1.2%, respectively. The dairy foods output rose by 4.3% in January-July 2017 compared with one year previously, while egg production rose by 3.1%.

UrBC, Moscow, August 21, 2017. Russians’ factual disposable incomes declined by 0.9% in July 2017 compared with one year earlier, Rosstat reports. The figures for January-July 2017 were also 1.4% lower than in January-July 2016. At the same time, people’s actual pay rose by 4.6% last month against one month previously and by 3% against the start of the year, according to Rosstat.