News of the nuclear industry and energy

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.

Since Soviet times, the practice of preparing for protection against chemical, biological and nuclear threats has not only been preserved in Russia, but is also developing well. This can be judged at least by the contents of first-aid kits intended for the provision of first aid by the civil defense forces. In NATO countries, much less attention is paid to this, including in military conditions. Charlie Gao, a defense expert at The National Interest, writes about this.

On Tuesday, August 17, a group of inspectors from Russia visited one of the military facilities in Lithuania. The head of the Russian National Center for Reducing Nuclear Danger, Sergey Ryzhkov, explained that such business trips are organized to check information about the military forces and plans for the deployment of major weapons systems and military equipment. Such international control is provided for in the Vienna Document of 2011 on Confidence-and Security-building Measures.

Russia poses the main military threat to the United States, this opinion was expressed on Tuesday, August 17, by the head of the Northern Command of the United States Armed Forces, General Glen Vanherk.

Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that he had discussed with his Iranian counterpart the prospects for resuming negotiations on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Russia is currently the world's leading country in the field of hypersonic weapons and missile defense systems (ABM), the head of the Strategic Command (STRATCOM)said US Armed Forces Admiral Charles Richard.

The Russian Federation avoids direct confrontation to strengthen its international role, but resorts to pressure against other countries and to cyber operations, the head of the US Strategic Command, Admiral Charles Richard, said on Thursday.

In September 1999, American researchers discovered a near-Earth asteroid with a diameter of just over 500 m and a mass of 85.5 million tons, which orbits the Sun in an elliptical orbit for 1.2 years. The asteroid was named Bennu after a bird from Egyptian mythology.

In August 2007, Russian scientists and the military used a deep-water descent vehicle "Klavesin-1R" to study the Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean, on the basis of which an autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicle "Klavesin-2R-PM" was subsequently developed, Zvezda recalls.

The Americans successfully launched the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Her May tests, we recall, ended unsuccessfully.

Ukrainian military expert Oleg Zhdanov in his material for the publication "Glavred" suggested that the Sarmat missile system being prepared by Russia will have no analogues in the world, and that no air defense system will be able to intercept this missile.

The Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) will be strengthened by 15 new intercontinental ballistic missiles by the end of 2021. This was announced on Tuesday, August 10, by Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexey Krivoruchko at the single day of acceptance of military products.

The Defense Ministry has completed the construction of infrastructure for the placement of new strategic missiles in four strategic missile defense facilities, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The Russian Navy will receive three nuclear submarines at once this year, a source in the shipbuilding industry said. On the air of Sputnik radio, captain of the 1st rank Igor Kurdin stressed that the Russian navy is restoring the necessary and sufficient number of nuclear submarines.

Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov in a conversation with " Lenta.ru "called the possible reasons for stopping the course of the Russian nuclear-powered submarine missile cruiser "Eagle". According to him, this may be due to the ingress of foreign objects into the water intake, navigation error, winding fishing nets on the screw, and so on.

The ground stage of work on the new Sarmat ICBM is almost complete, said the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin. "In fact, we are already completing the ground testing of the entire system, Russia has never created such a missile before, "Rogozin said on the YouTube channel"Solovyov Live".

The ground testing of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is being completed, this strategic complex will ensure the complete security of Russia for 30-40 years ahead, said Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos.