Russia is preparing a breakthrough in nuclear energy

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The issue of affordable and efficient energy sources has been an acute issue for a long time. Someone relies on renewable and alternative energy sources, the development of which is in full swing, but nuclear energy is still the most promising and profitable. And while a thermonuclear reactor is being built in the United States, a project has been launched in Russia to create a thorium reactor combining nuclear and thermonuclear Technology.





According to the head of the Kurchatov Institute Yevgeny Velikhov, Russia is now the world's leading supplier of nuclear fuel, so the development of hybrid reactor technology in our country is logical.

If the current geopolitical problems are overcome, then all partners in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project will be able to build hybrid reactors.


The participants in ITER, an international project to create a thermonuclear reactor, as well as to solve the physical and technological problems associated with this, along with Russia are the EU countries, as well as China, India, the USA, Korea, Japan and several other countries.

A hybrid reactor is a little simpler than a thermonuclear reactor. For example, its operation does not require ultra-high temperatures and pressures, and thorium, which is used as fuel, is much cheaper in production than uranium, and its disposal is incomparably simpler. To launch the first hybrid reactor, according to experts, it will turn out in the 2030s.
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  1. yuriy55
    yuriy55
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    April 12 2018 17: 15
    Forgive the elderly person. I love your huge plans. Especially those, the implementation of which is scheduled in 10-20 years. Today, now there is an acute question of whether Russia has cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles ... The option of creating small-sized atomic bombs or non-nuclear ammunition is possible. Our task is to restructure the economy to produce domestic products. If we live off the generations of the future, this will lead to collapse. As long as the world is dominated by an aggressive policy towards Russia, while our friends are waiting, and when they meet, they shyly look away, we need to deal with more pressing problems. As it was done during the Second World War, when we did not build super-heavy spaceships, but consistently and methodically churned out rockets for Ilov and Katyusha.
    1. Boris Kuzichev
      Boris Kuzichev
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      April 12 2018 17: 45
      It seems to me that one should not compare the economies of Russia and the USSR. In the USSR, during the war, the cost of production of military equipment and weapons decreased by 2 times, and the volume doubled. These are two completely different approaches. In the USSR, the basis of everything was to increase labor productivity, that is, the largest number of products in the shortest possible time, and in Russia now, as in the entire capitalist world, the principle of profitability is at the forefront — maximum profit, in the shortest possible time. The results are obvious.

      As for promising developments: during the war, thinking about something other than weapons in the matter of production is short-sighted. But right after the war, including on mate-tech. base of the war years, a colossal industrial breakthrough was made. The pace was different, and the goals were different (in many ways). The same developments of thermonuclear reactors! If at that time someone came out and said that this should not be done, because only after 60-70 years something will work out, it seems to me that they would not have understood. Now do not fight? Well, the fact that tension is observed in the world, well, our military-industrial complex does not sleep either. By the way, it is also basically based on the developments of the Soviet period, and there has been no union for almost 30 years.
  2. Hedgehog
    Hedgehog
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    April 13 2018 18: 48
    The normal start-up time of the reactor, a lot of difficulties and the high cost of technology are the whole reason. And this is a long-standing development.