Nuclear energy as culture: a practical process for preparation of the agents responsible for that transformation

In Brazil research and development are supported mainly by the government, meaning it is public money So it is important to share the knowledge and benefits from the research with the society. Another important question is the scientific analphabetism that raise difficulties for the comprehension of science and technology related matters. One way to improve the understanding process is the creation of workshops for science popularization which presented outstanding results. Participants of a workshop held by the Nuclear Technology Development Center CDTN - BH evaluated with grade 8.8 (from zero to ten) evincing the excellence of the applied model, simple in its essence: a group comprising scientific researchers, journalists and high school teachers attended several specific talks and was asked to prepare material for science divulgation according to the presented criteria. (author)