News of the nuclear industry and energy

Ukrainian specialists were working in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to produce a "dirty" bomb and to release plutonium, an informed source in one of the competent departments of the Russian Federation told Interfax.

Kiev wanted to accuse the Russian Federation of creating a radiation source of destruction at the NPP, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Thursday.

"This is Russia's propaganda game": an expert on the intimidation of the Third World War (Gazeta, Poland)

Moscow warns the West: "Do not interfere in the affairs in Ukraine," writes Gazeta. Putin's order to put the nuclear deterrent forces on alert is designed to provoke an emotional reaction. There is no threat of a nuclear conflict, Moscow is just playing its game.

iDnes (Czech Republic): the situation is worse than during the Caribbean crisis, says an expert in the field of disarmament

The iDnes publication quotes the opinion of nuclear weapons development specialist Peter Sukha about Putin's order to bring the Russian nuclear deterrent forces into full readiness. This is a way of putting pressure on the United States, the EU and NATO, the expert believes, and he assesses the current situation as very dangerous — worse than during the Caribbean crisis.

Gazeta Polska (Poland): Poland needs a nuclear shield

Poland needs its own nuclear weapons, writes Gazeta Polska. Only it will give the country a "security guarantee". Warsaw needs to start with participation in the European program for the joint use of nuclear weapons, the author of the article believes. This will bring her closer to owning her own, in which she is very interested, because otherwise the decision on the scale of the response to "aggression" remains in the hands of the United States.

US President Joe Biden assured that the residents of the country should not worry about the threat of nuclear war.

Swiss Airline plans to start using synthetic jet fuel created with the help of concentrated solar energy for the first time in the world. It creates exactly as much carbon dioxide as it takes to produce it. This is reported by the manufacturer of solar fuel Synhelion.

At the end of last week, Western experts on radiation safety were seriously alarmed – the automated control system at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant issued online data on a sharp increase in the radiation background. It is still much higher than the average for these observation points, although it is in a safe range. The culprits of the incident were found instantly, but it was necessary to tinker with determining the cause.

Iran believes that efforts to resume the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program can be crowned with success if the United States makes a political decision to meet the remaining demands of Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid Khatibzadeh said.

The collapse of Russian-Ukrainian space cooperation after the coup in Kiev in 2014, as well as recent US sanctions after Russia launched a military special operation in Ukraine, all this is a powerful blow to the domestic space industry. However, Russia will continue to implement its space programs, and the production of the necessary components for spacecraft will be deployed in our country. This was stated by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

German Defense Minister Kristine Lambrecht called the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the transfer of strategic forces to a special regime a threat, RIA Novosti reports.

It seemed to many of us that the Cold War was over long ago. But, judging by recent events, both parties involved in it are not completely satisfied with the current balance of forces and are ready to remind, at least so far in words, that they have not only conventional weapons, but also large stocks of nuclear weapons.

According to the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov, the personnel of the NPP continues to work on the maintenance of facilities, and also controls the radioactive situation

Russian military personnel guard and control the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP. This was announced to journalists on Monday by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

The decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin to transfer the deterrence forces to a special combat duty regime followed, in particular, after the statements of the British Foreign Minister, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

It's time for Washington to abandon this "muscle memory" and finally recognize the limitations of its strength

The US reaction to Russia's actions in Ukraine is reflexive and full of stereotypes of the past. This leads Washington off the right path and harms the interests of America itself, said Stephen M. Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard University, from the pages of Foreign Policy.

Head of Roscosmos Rogozin: Kiev aims to create missiles capable of hitting Russia

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that Kiev is aimed at creating ballistic missile systems capable of striking Russia. He told about this on the air of the YouTube channel "Solovyov Live".

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the transfer of the deterrence forces of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty.

Nuclear weapons will be deployed in Belarus again if the West places such weapons near the borders of the republic, President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko said.

A column of Yars missile systems has traveled more than 400 km and arrived from a permanent deployment point in Alabino near Moscow to participate in training for the Victory Day Parade on May 9, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Saturday.

The armies of Russia and Ukraine ensure the safety of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, over which the Russian military has taken control. This became known on Friday, February 25.