Mikhail Kovalchuk will become advisor to the head of Roscosmos on the Space Atom project

Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center (NRC), will become Dmitry Bakanov, Roscosmos Director General, advisor on the development of the Space Atom project. This was reported on the website of the state corporation on June 11.

"Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the Kurchatov Institute Research and Development Center, will become an adviser to Dmitry Bakanov, Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation, on the implementation and coordination of the federal Space Atom project (part of the National Project Development of Space Activities of the Russian Federation)," the statement said.

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