News of the nuclear industry and energy

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that the meeting of the foreign ministers of the countries concerned in New York this week will give a new impetus to the negotiations on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear issue.

North Korea on Monday condemned the US decision to help Australia build nuclear submarines within the framework of AUKUS, KCNA reports.

The British Navy plans the future of its nuclear submarines in advance. Yesterday, on September 19, the press service of the Royal Navy reported that the UK Ministry of Defense has allocated the first tranche in the amount of £170 million under the SSN-Replacement (SSNR) program.

Nuclear submarines for the Royal Australian Navy (Navy) can be built by reducing the order for Virginia-type submarines of the US Navy, Brian Clark, a researcher at the Hudson Institute, told Breaking Defense.

There are questions about the contract concluded between the Australian government and the French company Naval Group, which provides for the construction of 12 non-nuclear submarines, says the American edition of The Drive.

The United States, Great Britain and Australia united to protect their interests, and France was indirectly affected. On September 16, the BBC news agency reported that the three states had concluded a historic security pact.

The second All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference was held at the Military Academy of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S. K. Timoshenko.

Parts of Russian floating nuclear power plants will be built at the Wison (Nantong) Heavy Industry Co Ltd. shipyard in Nantong. A Chinese manufacturer has won a competition for the construction of two nuclear power plant buildings for the needs of the Baim Mining and Processing Plant. The Chinese shipyard offered the lowest price, Kommersant reports.

The creation of nuclear submarines for the Australian Navy will be the first initiative under the new AUKUS alliance, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the latest Russian weapons systems fully comply with global trends

Russia plans to maintain its leadership in the field of hypersonic and innovative weapons systems. This was stated on Wednesday to journalists at the Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum (TNF 2021) by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov.

US intelligence chiefs are discussing efforts to rearm their agencies to counter China. They believe that the Russian nuclear triad is convincing and effective, so the Chinese are largely guided by it and would like to have the same one.

Washington, due to bureaucracy and fear of risks, is extremely slow to act in the military sphere in competition with Moscow and Beijing. This was stated by the American General John Hyten.

Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant "Kupol", which produces the world-famous short-range anti-aircraft missile systems of the Tor-M2 family, is conducting a number of projects to create complex cooling systems, including for nuclear power plants, as part of diversification, said Alexander Vedrov, Deputy General Director of the Almaz-Antey Concern for production and technological policy.

The overwhelming majority of Russians (83%) believe that Russia needs to have nuclear weapons, among fellow citizens aged 60 years and older, 88% of respondents think so, according to a VTsIOM survey received by Interfax on Monday.

The US position on the need to include non-strategic nuclear weapons in future agreements with Russia is unacceptable, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.

Russia is superior to the United States in some aspects of weapons. This was announced on Wednesday, September 8, by the American ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul.

The Russian " torpedo of the apocalypse — - a nuclear underwater drone "Poseidon" - changes the idea of a nuclear threat, since it represents a new category of strategic weapons, says the Norwegian publication Resett.

The tests of the strategic missile submarine of the Borei-A project Generalissimo Suvorov and the multi-purpose nuclear submarine of the Yasen-M project Krasnoyarsk are scheduled for 2022, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov said in an interview with Interfax on Friday.

The IAEA report, which declares the resumption of the operation of a nuclear reactor in North Korea's Yongbyon, is not supported by weighty evidence, an informed source told Interfax.

Flight tests of the new Russian intercontinental missile " Sarmat "will start in the near future, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said on Saturday, September 4.