T he basic idea of the establishment of INCS has originated from the apparent lack of nuclear chemists worldwide. This has been outlined in detail in the paper presented by T. Unak during the International Symposium on Radiation Education, which was held between 11th - 14th of December, in 1998 in Hayama, Japan. As it was outlined in T. Unak's paper*, there is expected to be a growing demand for nuclear chemists in the 21st century, especially for the growing applications of the different kinds of radiopharmaceuticals worldwide.

In addition, the transportation of nuclear wastes and related safety problems, and the significant funding for the development of alternative and safer nuclear reactors, accelerators, etc indicate clearly the very important role of nuclear chemists in the 21st century. In spite of these realities, the nuclear chemistry specialization has very important educational, training, and academic problems, which are waiting to be resolved. The lack of any international organization of nuclear chemists increases the difficulties in resolving these kinds of problems. For this reason, the establishment of INCS may surely be very helpful in organizing nuclear chemists worldwide and facilitating the solving their common problems. In addition, the scope of INCS is imagined to cover all of the directly or indirectly related people to the chemistry of radioactive materials and to the applications of nuclear radiations...