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Legendary Kurchatov Institute is celebrating its anniversary today, on April 12. The National Research Center was founded 75 years ago and was headed by the prominent physicist Igor Kurchatov. Soviet scientists started working over development of the nuclear weapons there. This scientific institute became a forbearer of all key branches of the national atomic industry, TASS informs.
According to Mikhail Kovalchuk who is managing the National Research Center of the Kurchatov Institute now, there are few organizations of the kind in the world, which originated many ideas and successfully brought these ideas into life. He reminded that our scientists immediately after implementing the atomic project, began working over the nuclear energetics.
Igor Kurchatov gathered the best brains of the country in his Institute in 1943. The laboratory core consisted of scientists of Leningrad Physical Technical Institute, students of Academician Abram Ioffe.
It took the scientists 6 years to create the first nuclear explosive. After the success of the defense project, they started implementing civil nuclear activities. In some time, the Kurchatov Institute turned into the leading world scientific center.
Igor Kurchatov became the scientific director of the first world atomic station launched in Obninsk in the middle of the 50ies.
The institute developed main types of the nuclear reactors successfully used today, the first Soviet nuclear-powered submarine and the first nuclear icebreaker as well as first power plants for space development.
Moreover, the Kurchatov institute worked out a method of magnetic plasma confinement, which became the basis of the controlled nuclear fusion program developed by more than 50 years ago by the honored President of the Kurchatov Institute, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yevnegy Velikhov.
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