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XXIV International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Field Theory

12.06.2001
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New Atomic Submarine AKULA--2 Launched Several Days Ago

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First Thermonuclear Reactor Is Under Way in Russia

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New--Generation Carrier Rocket at le Bourget

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First Man in Space - 40 Years Ago Sharp!

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Satellite Acquired by the Moon 35 Years ago

19.03.2001
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New Rocket Carrier is under Way at "Progress"

16.03.2001
17:15

Russian scientists support BeppoSax!

16.03.2001
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Save the best Italian experiment!

08.03.2001
20:51

Yakov Zeldovich Would Have Today his 87th Anniversary

04.03.2001
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Forty Years Passed since the First Successful Interception of a Ballistic Missile

04.03.2001
13:27

First Thermonuclear Reactor May Be Elaborated in Russia

Russia and EEC countries would strive for the right to construct a thermonuclear reactor on their territory, as was claimed by V.Glukhikh, the director of the Yefremov Research Institute of Electric and Physical Equipment (YRIEPE). He said that the total cost of the reactor development project is estimated to be 8 billion dollars. The project is being elaborated by EEC countries, Russia, USA, and Japan. On behalf of Russia it is the YRIEPE that is currently taking part in the elaboration of a 1.5 gigawatt reactor sample. As was said by academician Zhores Alfiorov, a Nobelist in physics, "after having arrived at a corresponding political decision it will not possibly take more than 20 years to construct a thermonuclear reactor." And the political decision has been arrived at lately.

On February 21 the Russian government issued the decree having a special purpose aiming at the federal program development on the subject. According to this decree, the project which is called "International Thermonuclear Reactor (ITER)" is to be elaborated in the years 2002 - 2005. Ministry of Atomic Energy was assigned to be the State Customer, being at the same time the orization in charge of the decree execution. The project is to be submitted for consideration in the Government in the first half- year 2001.

Russian scientists have lately decided to declassify a number of technological approaches in thermonuclear physics. Thus, the concept of the "Burst Combustion Pile" has become a property of the scientific and engineering masses. Owing to certain information leakage as far back as 1960s, the configuration of the thermonuclear setup proved to be patented not only by Russia but also by some other countries. It is only Russia, however, that possesses now the secret know-how for creation "miniature atomic bombs", small charges of energy needed for the setup to be initiated. The "Burst Combustion Pile" operates on the principle of deuterium fusion initiated by such a small charge of energy. An industrial setup would be as powerful as 30,000,000 kilowatt which is equivalent to the power of 20-30 atomic stations. To create such a setup it would be needed some 3 billion dollars. An industrial power setup on the "Burst Combustion Pile" concept might be constructed in Russia before long. Russian specialists estimate the cost of energy produced at such a station to be 1 cent a kilowatt/hour which is strikingly cheep.


Source: www.rbc.ru


Translated by Nataliya Lipunova

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