The development of fusion energy, and the creation of ecological center in the Arctic were discussed today at the Kremlin. The meeting of Vladimir Putin and the head of the Kurchatov Institute Mikhail Kovalchuk. Five years ago the institution was transformed into a research center. And, as noted at the meeting, now our country is actively involved in many large-scale international programs.
The development of fusion energy, and the creation of ecological center in the Arctic were discussed today at the Kremlin. The meeting of Vladimir Putin and the head of the Kurchatov Institute Mikhail Kovalchuk. Five years ago the institution was transformed into a research center. And, as noted at the meeting, now our country is actively involved in many large-scale international programs.
Where imagination ahead of technology and development are changing the reality – so the whole world knows the legendary Kurchatov Institute. 5 years ago it was transformed into a research center. What do these changes for the scientists of the Russian science and the future of the industry, reported Vladimir Putin, director of the Institute Mikhail Kovalchuk.
In. Putin: “I would like to talk to you about what it has given to our well-known, honored the institution and the staff, which was able, in your opinion, to achieve, including the use of a new form, and what you think is the most promising and interesting in the near future. You laid out something that I want to show? “
M. Kovalchuk: “Yes. I’m probably with this nachnu.Vladimir Putin, you know, before the institute called the Institute of Atomic Energy, and therefore nuclear technology, nuclear technology is our core business. I would like to highlight a number of important new aspects. This The picture is very clearly seen: that the Arctic is the Polar Circle, near Murmansk. It built a complex that recycles solid waste, that is, everything that was once contaminated by radiation, fully recyclable. In fact, in the Arctic created a powerful ecological center “.
Putin: “How many people work here?”
M.Kovalchuk: “I think it will work here, probably hundreds of people”.
Arctic without radiation – an ambitious project for waste, recycling and safe storage of the Soviet nuclear legacy. Waste, which for decades were buried in the ice. After general cleaning the place will be a testing ground era of new technologies. Nuclear energy for the development of the Arctic will develop here in the Polar circle.
“In the first place, a completely new principle of nuclear power based on the direct conversion, it actually opens the possibility of creating a new fleet – again, the second gives the possibility of creating new autonomous nuclear power devices, which will enable work on the shelf, and in view of the vast territory of our country local energy opportunities, “- said Mikhail Kovalchuk.
The new energy opportunities, including nuclear fusion – sensitive issue for all of humanity. And it ahead of Russia, the director of the Kurchatov Institute. Sophisticated equipment worth billions of dollars, neutron reactors, accelerators that create new materials and advanced technologies run in. None of the largest international project is not without Russia’s participation.
“Now in Europe CERN – center, where we are actively working, we created an international thermonuclear reactor near Nice worth more than ten billion dollars, and two powerful machines: X-Ray free electron laser and another accelerator facility in Germany. So that’s the first time Russia is a fully equal party to all these projects, and in half of the projects, such as a laser and a tokamak, we ideology. In fact, the world is developing our Soviet, Russian ideas and ideology ” – Mikhail Kovalchuk said.
Putin: “Leaders of Germany also attaches great importance to this, and we spoke with the Chancellor, she is a physicist, so she is very interested in this”.
Another project – the ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. Russia a full partner in it, along with the European Union, China, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States.
The collapse of the Soviet Union freed thousands of professionals who have left the country. But more recently, scientists have returned to their home territory. In Russia, there are centers of the new world attraction – technology and specialists. One of them set up near St. Petersburg on the basis of several scientific institutions.
Putin: “By the way, the union Gatchina these institutions gives some effect?”
M.Kovalchuk ” Absolutely. We are now coordinate fully our four institutions that were combined by you in the pilot project, they operate simultaneously. Two and a half years ago on our site Gatchina gave new life to the project of PIC. This is the world’s largest full-flow neutron reactor, which we are now move according to plan. And I hope that everything has been planned then, two and a half years ago, will be put into operation. There we had a unique opportunity, and now a huge global interest in the manifest “.
Interest turns into mutually beneficial cooperation with the Council called on the international Kurchatov Institute, where twice a year meet the leaders of the world’s leading centers – from America to Japan. Experience with Western counterparts Director of the Institute proposed to move as the BRICS countries and the CIS. Especially since all the former Soviet republics were large nuclear centers. Infrastructure and network running, but today they are reduced with the participation of the Kurchatov Institute. His chapter in the end of the meeting appealed to the president to – to adopt a national program for the development of fusion. Of the eight countries participating in the ITER only in Russia it is not.
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