Briefly

Goals, tasks, prospects

On 26 May, Uzbekistan, a JINR Member State, hosted a meeting of the Committee on Non-Energy Application of Nuclear Technologies of the Advisory Board of the International Research Centre based on the MBIR reactor (IRC MBIR).

The event took place in Tashkent on the site of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. JINR Vice-Director Latchesar Kostov represented the Joint Institute at the meeting. He announced that the Institute together with colleagues had already started working on the research programme of the facility under construction.

President of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, RAS foreign member, Plenipotentiary Representatives of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan at JINR Bekhzod Yuldashev opened the event with a welcoming speech.

More than 40 representatives of largest Russian and foreign enterprises of the atomic sector took part in the event in person and online. Leading scientific and educational organizations of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, China, Armenia, Algeria, Brazil, the RSA, as well as IAEA representatives also joined the event. Participants discussed aims and tasks of the MBIR project, prospects for the collaboration development, as well as engagement of students into scientific work within MBIR. Director of international scientific and technical projects of the Rosatom State Corporation, Director General of IRC MBIR Consortium Leader LLC Vasily Konstantinov moderated the meeting.

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