News of the nuclear industry and energy

US President Joseph Biden sent a letter to the head of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, the press service of the Kazakh leader reported.

The command of the US Navy announced the official commissioning ceremony of the new Virginia-class submarine (SSN-792) "Vermont", which took place on August 28 at the submarine base in New London.

This was stated by Ivan Ozhgikhin, Senior Managing Director of RUSNANO Management Company, Chairman of the Management Board of the Medical Equipment Consortium, at the Innomed forum. Currently, up to 30% of the volume of medical products purchased at the expense of the budget is already produced in Russia.

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced that on August 25, at the enterprise of the Newport News Shipbuilding division, the cutting ceremony of the first steel for the construction of the Doris Miller aircraft carrier (CVN-81) will be held.

Placing nuclear weapons in space is a crime, and if the United States takes this step, an adequate response will follow from Russia. This was stated by the general director of the state corporation "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin in an interview with " Gazeta.<url>", published on August 29.

On August 26, the chief of Staff – First Deputy Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Fazletdinov, made a speech at the Patriot ECC in the studio of the Zvezda TV channel, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that the United States "acted shamelessly" in the situation with the nuclear negotiations, and that the current administration of President Joe Biden in this matter is no different from the previous one under Donald Trump.

Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov summed up the results of the Army-2021 forum on Saturday and took part in awarding defense companies that distinguished themselves in fulfilling the state defense order.

Lieutenant General of the US Air Force Thomas Boussier predicted the superiority of China over Russia in the capabilities of nuclear weapons. His words during an online forum on nuclear deterrence are reported by RIA Novosti.

The planned re-equipment of military units and formations of the Strategic Missile Forces allowed to increase the share of modern missile weapons to 81 percent by January 1, 2021 and give the Strategic Missile Forces group new opportunities to perform nuclear deterrence tasks.

Only a nuclear space tug can become a transport space system for the movement of large scientific stations, said the general director of the corporation

The testing of a drip refrigerator-emitter for the Zeus nuclear tug on board the International Space Station (ISS) is an important topic for Roscosmos, in which there may be breakthrough results. This opinion was expressed by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

As reported in the center of them. Keldysh, the project documentation has already been developed

The Keldysh Research Center (part of Roscosmos) plans to test a drip refrigerator-emitter for the Zeus nuclear tug on board the International Space Station (ISS)in 2024-2025. This was announced to TASS by the general director of the enterprise Vladimir Koshlakov at the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

At the Army-2021 forum, a contract was signed for the supply of a mobile command missile system to the Russian Defense Ministry. The contract was signed with the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering (MIT).

One device will stand on the Progress, the second-on the ISS, and the communication procedure will be worked out between them

The creation of a prototype of equipment for space laser communication is planned to be completed at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Region, part of the Rosatom state Corporation) by 2024. This was reported on Monday by the newspaper "Strana Rosatom".

The principal difference of the development is the ability to control the key technological parameters that determine the quality of synthesized products

JSC "Science and Innovation" (part of the state corporation "Rosatom") presented at the forum" Army-2021 " a mock-up of an existing 3D printer that demonstrates the capabilities of the domestic software and hardware platform (PAP) for managing and controlling the additive process.

The United States of America will impose new sanctions against Russia in September in connection with the incident with the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to a statement issued on Friday by the State Department.

In Russia, there are projects for the global development of the bottom of the world ocean with the help of robots, says TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin.

Russia may be going to test a cruise missile with a nuclear power plant "Burevestnik", CNN reported on Thursday, citing experts who studied satellite images.

The IAEA is sounding the alarm because of the rapid acceleration of Iran's uranium enrichment process. After reports emerged in April that Iran had raised its enrichment level to 60%, new data from the Natanz plant suggests that Tehran is on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon.

According to the web resource "Mediapaluba", the lead new nuclear icebreaker "Arctic" of project 22220 (LK-60YA) on August 12, 2021, got up for repair in the Veleshchinsky dry dock of JSC "Kronstadt Marine Plant". The vessel will have to replace the rowing electric motor on the right shaft, which failed during the commissioning of the electric propulsion system.