Kovalchuk pointed to the help of the "deep" science of the USSR in the implementation of the atomic project

"Deep" science ensured the success of the Soviet atomic project. This was announced on November 27 by Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the Kurchatov Institute Research Center, at the session of the V Congress of Young Scientists dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the nuclear industry.

"All the countries that have nuclear weapons actually got them from the hands of the pioneers, either us or the Americans. Because in order to do this, it is necessary to have state power: mining, processing industry, mechanical engineering and, most importantly, "deep" science. We had a huge scientific reserve," Kovalchuk said.

He recalled that 100 years ago, during the 1920s and 1930s, nuclear physics was actively developing in the country thanks to scientists Abram Ioffe, Igor Kurchatov, Anatoly Alexandrov. According to him, scientific conferences and discoveries in the field of nuclear physics were also regularly held at that time.

"We have been developing all these issues at the best global level. And it was just as important as the fact that the government and science found a common language," he concluded.

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On October 21, Mikhail Kovalchuk pointed to the revival of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, which is moving to a new level. He stressed that the PEAK reactor and the SKIF synchrotron (Siberian Ring Photon Source) were launched in Gatchina. In addition, the site at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok has been preserved.

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