Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order approving the five-year program of activities of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute". The federal budget has already allocated more than 185 billion rubles for its implementation.
Among the main goals and objectives of the program are the development of promising technologies, the formation of a technological base for Russia to achieve leadership in priority areas of scientific and technological development, the creation of a network of research facilities of the megasience class.
The main areas of work provided for in the program are the development of nuclear technologies for the creation of a new generation of nuclear energy, research and development in the field of creating new materials, including electronic component base, the use of nuclear technologies in medicine, research in the field of genetics and biotechnology, as well as the creation of nature-like technologies.
Within the framework of the program, the Kurchatov Institute will continue the development and creation of six research facilities of the "megasience" class, which are sources of synchrotron and neutron radiation. With the use of such installations, research will be conducted in the field of materials science, biomedicine, including the study of viruses, viral antigens and vaccines.
Considerable attention in the program is paid to educational initiatives. For example, it is planned to launch an online project "Kurchatov classes", as well as create a correspondence Kurchatov school. Its pupils – children and teenagers – will get acquainted with research activities in the field of natural sciences and work on engineering and technical projects. This will help attract young talents to science.
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