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MOSCOW, March 19 Russia, presiding over BRICS, will present its advanced mega-scientific installations to its BRICS+ colleagues for joint research projects, the Minister of Science and higher education of the Russian Federation Valery Falkov.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin noted in his address to the Federal Assembly, no other country in the world has such a range of “megascience” class scientific installations as Russia has today. These are unique opportunities for both domestic scientists and foreign researchers, whom Russia invites to cooperation, the head of state said.
«This year Russia is presiding over BRICS, and we intend to show this entire range of opportunities to our BRICS+ colleagues,» Falkov said.
«I think 2024-2025 will be breakthrough years. Because we are planning to launch a number of unique installations in these years,» the minister added.
According to him, this is NICA — a collider at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna near Moscow, and SKIF (Siberian Ring Photon Source) in the Novosibirsk region.
The National Research Center «Kurchatov Institute» is carrying out a lot of work on a whole range of installations — its high-flux nuclear reactor PIK is «gaining defense» in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, the minister noted. According to its characteristics, PIK is the world's largest beam-type reactor research facility with a thermal power of 100 MW, which makes it possible to accommodate up to 50 scientific stations using extracted neutron beams. The reactor will become a universal research tool using neutron radiation in the interests of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, materials science, and medicine.
«We should also mention the neutrino telescope on Baikal. It was originally made by an international collaboration, but now we feel that our colleagues are gradually returning to work, especially since we are completing its construction. This telescope in its class is becoming one of the largest in the world “You can count such installations on the fingers of one hand; by and large, there are only three of them in the world,” added Falkov.