News of the nuclear industry and energy

The new Sarmat rocket will be able to reach London in just three minutes. The Daily Mail writes about this, stating that the threat to the United Kingdom is growing.

The strategic Command of the US armed forces may lose its most powerful nuclear bombs in the coming years, it follows from the materials of the US Congress.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that modern S-500 air defense systems are already being delivered to the troops, and the heavy Sarmat ICBM will be on combat duty at the end of 2022.

JSC "ZiO-Podolsk" (part of the engineering division of the State Corporation "Rosatom" – JSC "Atomenergomash") manufactured and prepared for shipment the first module of the evaporator of the steam generator PGN-200M.

It is strange to hear talk about the need for a new agreement on the reduction of strategic offensive arms (START) with the United States, while Russia is preparing to equip the first missile regiment in Uzhur in the Krasnoyarsk Territory with modern Sarmatians, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin writes in Telegram.

The latest missile weapons become a means of blackmail

Today, we can state the active attempts of individual countries and military-political blocs, in particular the United States and NATO, to shift the global nuclear missile parity in their direction.

Beijing will not let the rebellious island acquire an atomic bomb

In recent weeks, relations between the States of the Asia-Pacific region have moved into a mode of increased military and political readiness. US President Joseph Biden announced Washington's intention to defend Taiwan, and former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - about the need for Japan to abandon the "nuclear taboo".

Rear Admiral Mikhail Chekmasov spoke about the prospects of Russian aircraft carriers

The Admiral Kuznetsov, the only heavy aircraft carrier in the Russian Navy, will return to the fleet after repairs in the first quarter of 2024. About why new aircraft carriers have not appeared in Russia for 30 years and how the domestic military fleet can withstand NATO carrier strike groups (AUG) - in an interview with Gazeta.Ru" said Rear Admiral of the reserve, military expert Mikhail Chekmasov.

a 100-megaton nuclear monster. How to stop the Russian torpedo killer

Military columnist Michael Peck, in an article for the National Interest, cites hypothetical ways by which, in his opinion, it is possible to stop the Russian Poseidon torpedo.

On June 17, 2022 at Jiangnan Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. (as part of the Chinese State Shipbuilding Corporation China State Shipbuilding Corporation - CSSC) on Changxing Island in Shanghai, a ceremony was held for the launching (actually withdrawal from the dry construction dock) of the third Chinese aircraft carrier under construction, named Fujian (Fujian, tail number "18") in honor of the eastern province of the PRC of the same name. The aircraft carrier Fujian, designated as Project 003, will become the largest warship of the PLA Navy.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a joint press conference with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and the prime ministers of the three Baltic states in Vilnius on Tuesday. Naturally, the main topic at this event was the supply of weapons to Ukraine. It is noteworthy that all the rhetoric of the head of the German Cabinet resembled boasting to representatives of junior members of the EU and NATO. 

Domestic developments of the military-industrial complex are capable of surprising and sobering people who are hatching aggressive plans against Belarus and the Union State, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said at a meeting on the state and development of microelectronics on June 14.

A landing party of the leaders of the leading Western countries – France, Germany and Italy - has arrived in Kiev. As the Ukrainian authorities themselves admit, the guests came to persuade Zelensky to start reconciling with Moscow. As if by coincidence, on the eve of this visit, several prominent Western figures announced at once that the Ukrainian army was losing and could only be saved by direct military intervention by NATO. Why are such appeals needed?

The Hayabusa-2 space expedition from the Ryugu asteroid returned to Earth in December 2020 — and not with empty containers. It took the scientists two years to carry out the initial analysis of the imported material, and they recently published a report on their work. According to him, Ryugu is a fragment of the "planetesimal", the embryo of future planets, which revolves around the forming protostar. In other words, Ryugu appeared even before the Sun and the Solar System were formed.

"We will draw appropriate conclusions and use our means of destruction, which we have enough to strike at those objects that we have not yet struck" – this is exactly the response promised by Vladimir Putin if the United States delivers long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine for the HIMARS MLRS promised by the Pentagon to Ukraine.

TVEL has announced the first delivery to India of the improved TVS-2M nuclear fuel, which will increase the economic efficiency of the 2 operating units of the Kudankulam NPP, built with the participation of Russia.

The acceleration section of the newest Sarmat ICBM is one and a half times shorter than that of the Voivode. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was announced by the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Karakaev, on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

The aggravation of disagreements between the United States and Russia against the background of a special operation in Ukraine may turn out for Americans not only record inflation and a rise in the price of fuel at gas stations. Next in line are possible problems for American nuclear power plants.

Russia's Hegemony in nuclear power

The West depends not only on Russian gas and oil, but also on nuclear fuel and technologies for nuclear energy, writes Foreign Affairs. The nuclear industry in many countries has stalled, it is difficult and expensive to revive it. But the authors of the article really hope that Western countries will find money for this.

Military expert Dmitry Kornev — about the rearmament of the Strategic Missile Forces into four complexes at once and how this is related to the geopolitical situation

This year, a unique event in modern history will take place in the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN). According to media reports, citing sources in the military department, four new missile regiments will be on combat duty until the end of 2022. And, very likely, they will be equipped with four different missile systems!