News of the nuclear industry and energy

The Baikal neutrino telescope, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, will start operating in March 2021. This was announced on Monday, February 8, by Grigory Trubnikov, Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Russian military scientists have offered guaranteed protection against a" multi-sphere operation " by NATO. On the air of Sputnik radio, Igor Korotchenko, the editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, shared his opinion on this issue.

Russian military scientists have proposed a variant of the combat use of the Aerospace Forces( VKS), which will provide guaranteed protection against a possible multi-sphere operation of NATO, a new approach is presented in the journal "Aerospace Forces. Theory and Practice", published by the Military Training and Research Center of the Air Force (Air Force).

If Washington wants Tehran to comply with its obligations under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), they themselves must return to compliance with the norms of this document and lift anti-Iranian sanctions, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted on Sunday.

Over the past two days, it has become clear that with the coming to power of the Joe Biden administration in the United States, American foreign policy has radically changed. The previous principles of the relative isolationism of the previous American leader, Donald Trump, are thrown aside.

This year, an underwater drone and the latest rocket will reach the finish line

In 2021, at least two promising domestic weapons systems will reach the finish line — the beginning of testing.

The issues of additional supplies of hypersonic and high-precision long-range weapons were discussed at a meeting held by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the Military-Industrial Corporation NPO Mashinostroeniya JSC in Reutov near Moscow on Friday, February 5.

Washington is developing a common position with the "Eurotroika" (Germany, Great Britain, France) on the nuclear deal with Iran, and appropriate consultations are being held, said Assistant to the US President for National Security Jake Sullivan.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will remain ready to respond to Russia's aggressive actions, despite the agreement between the United States and Russia to extend the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) for 5 years.

Modernization of JSC "Sevmash" should be accelerated to prepare for the construction of submarines of the fifth generation, said the General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov.

The first deputy head of the international Committee of the Federation Council Vladimir Dzhabarov expressed bewilderment at the statement of the American Admiral Charles Richards about the possibility of a nuclear war with Russia and noted that a professional military "in a terrible dream" is afraid to imagine such a development of the situation.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the agreement on the extension of the START treaty has entered into force, the Russian Federation and the United States exchanged relevant notes, according to the website of the diplomatic department.

The network posted a photo showing the tail section of a promising Chinese submarine. It can be a multi-purpose submarine Type-095 or a carrier of strategic ballistic missiles Type-096.

On January 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On Ratification of the Agreement on the Extension of the Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Weapons of April 8, 2010".

The NASIC report reflects either chaos in the US intelligence community, or ignorance of the situation

The US Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) earlier this year published a report on threats to the United States from ballistic and cruise missiles from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia. Military observer " of the Newspaper.En " Mikhail Khodarenok dealt with the details of the document, which allows us to assess the potential of the world's largest nuclear powers.

The Russian Defense Ministry for the first time spoke about the characteristics of the strategic complex with the Yars-S intercontinental ballistic missile.

State tests of "Zircons" will be completed in 2021

On Friday, the Ministry of Defense held a Single day of acceptance of military equipment. About what weapons, military and special equipment entered the troops in 2020 and what weapons the army and navy expect in the near future, says "Газета.Ru".

Acting Rector of Tomsk Polytechnic University Andrey Yakovlev and Head of the NTI Competence Center "New and Mobile Energy Sources" at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Chernogolovka) Yuri Dobrovolsky paid a working visit to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna last Friday.

Roscosmos, according to various reports, either excluded, or he himself left the expert group to discuss the prospects for creating an international circumlunar station Gateway. The United States, Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency (ESA) remain in the project. What really happened and what are Russia's interests in terms of expansion to the moon?

Dmitry Litovkin-why the submarines of the project 971 are called the perfect naval weapon

Already in 2023, Russian sailors will be able to return to permanent combat duty in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the project 971 type "Pike", or, as they are also called in the West, "Shark", will take on the escort of ships, and will also monitor the coasts of the United States and Britain.