News of the nuclear industry and energy

Thousands of tons of enriched uranium and plutonium have been found at the Ukrainian Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which is currently controlled by Russia. The IAEA is seriously concerned about this circumstance, and for good reason. Could these stocks have become raw materials for Ukraine to create nuclear weapons, and if so, how exactly?

The United States seems to have decided to further raise the stakes in the Ukrainian conflict – it was decided to supply Kiev with weapons of terrible destructive power. The M142 Himars missile systems are comparable to the Russian Iskanders and can give Ukraine the opportunity to strike far into the territory of Russia. But this is theoretical. What will actually happen?

This is stated in the SBU report on the military-political activity of the United States in Ukraine, written in 2017

The Security Service of Ukraine recorded the likelihood that the United States is using cooperation with Ukrainian laboratories to develop biological weapons.

Commander of Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) Sergey Karakaev called the shortened active section of the trajectory and the energy power of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile one of the many differences from the Voevoda missile.

Why can't Ankara abandon Russia?

Turkey has set a course to transform the country from a regional leader into a world leader, writes Duma. The author of the article gives examples of the persistence of Turkish diplomacy and at the same time its flexibility, including in relation to Russia.

Putin's nuclear threats: three likely targets of a nuclear strike

Vladimir Putin has caused worldwide fears that he is apparently ready to use nuclear weapons against Russia's opponents. But which countries could the Russian president strike in a nuclear war in the first place?

On the second serial icebreaker of the project 22220 "Ural", built at the Baltic plant in St. Petersburg, the reactor plant was launched. This is reported by the USC press service.

After the start of the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin gave the order to transfer the country's nuclear deterrent forces to a special combat duty regime. This step was designed to prevent direct military intervention by the West in the armed conflict in Nezalezhnaya and became a guarantor of preventing a possible third World War.

The American nuclear deterrent program is unreliable. Its weak point is outdated missiles, submarines and airplanes.

The stocks of military equipment of the EU countries, so necessary for the use of the language of force, have dried up due to supplies to Ukraine. Such a conclusion can be drawn from the statement of the head of the Bundeswehr, the Polish president, as well as from the complaints of the chief of the European Diplomacy and concurrently the chief "hawk" of Brussels, Josep Borrel. Europe presents itself as defenseless against the Russian threat, but is this the case in reality?

JSC "Radio Engineering Institute named after Academician A.L. Mints" (RTI) and JSC "NPC "NIIDAR" (NIIDAR) — leaders in the field of creating complex radio engineering systems. Specialists of the institutes create both separate equipment and complex radar stations (radars) and hardware and software complexes.

On the morning of May 25, the DPRK carried out another (the seventeenth since the beginning of the year) missile test, firing three ballistic missiles from the Sunan area in Pyongyang towards the Sea of Japan. The US State Department reacted sharply negatively to the actions of the DPRK, again called on the leadership of North Korea to refrain from provocations and move to a sustainable dialogue on this issue.

On October 2, 2021, the Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine of the US Navy, USS Connecticut, while performing a mission in the waters of the South China Sea, was damaged as a result of a collision with an unknown object. 11 members of the submarine crew were injured. But the submarine's nuclear power plant was allegedly not damaged.

Rosatom will build a huge plant for the production of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and industry for 26 billion rubles. At the same time, the products will be focused mainly on the domestic market.

In the last few days, there has been a lot of talk about the "revived" Moskvich plant and the production of a certain electric car on its basis.

Russia will soon put about 50 new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on combat duty, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said.

A video appeared on the Network from the Kamchatka Kura test site, where training combat units arrived after the first launch of the Sarmat heavy ballistic missile. The operator of Zvezda managed to shoot rare shots.

Billionaire Oleg Deripaska urged to remember the danger of nuclear war and the words of one of the creators of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, academician Andrei Sakharov, that this is "collective suicide."

The special military operation has become a giant testing ground for the latest Russian weapons. Another example of this was the reports about the beginning of the use of Su-57 fighters in Ukraine. What kind of weapon was first used during the special operation and what results did it show?

Beijing makes it clear that the world needs a new union of states capable of "introducing stability into international relations experiencing an era of radical changes." These words of Chinese President Xi Jinping refer to the BRICS organization, which also includes Russia. But will the BRICS members be able to overthrow the collective West from the pedestal of the world leader?

Rostec's website tells about the main space launch of the year – the launch of the Luna-25 spacecraft. This automatic station will be the first Russian lunar mission in the last half century.