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    From the 1st to the 10th of October 2022, Dr. Richard Stone, an American journalist who works for many scientific publications such as Science, National Geographic, Discover and others, visited Ukraine to get acquainted with the work of scientists and scientific institutions during the war, as well as plans for rebuilding scientific institutions after the war.     During the visit, Richard Stone visited a number of scientific institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in particular the Institute for Nuclear Research, Institute for Superhard Materials,…

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    The monograph “Scattering and bound states in a system of several particles” was published by the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine (authors: L. A. Bulavin, V. I. Kovalchuk, A. V. Nosovskyi). The volume of the publication is 200 pages.      Scattering and bound states in a system of several particles is studied in the monograph. In the area of ​​intermediate energies, based on diffraction nuclear model, elastic collisions, reactions of nucleon transfer, collapse and scattering with excitation of low-lying…

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     As a result of the Russian military occupation of the city of Chornobyl in February-March 2022, the laboratory and office equipment of the Institute for Safety Problems of NPP of the NAS of Ukraine was damaged, robbed or destroyed.      In the conditions of martial law and insufficient funding, thanks to the charitable assistance of such organizations as the Foundation “With Ukraine”, “Infopulse Ukraine” LLC, the National Hosting Provider “MiroHost”, the “Children of Hope and Love” and “Phoenix” charitable foundations, the Institute was able to partially restore…

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     Nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities are objects of peaceful use of nuclear energy, not intended for combat operations and should not be subject to military attack. With its actions related to the shelling and seizure of nuclear facilities at the Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia NPPs, as well as the bombing of the “Neutron Source” research nuclear facility in Kharkiv, the Russian Federation violated all world principles of nuclear safety.      During the hostilities on March 4, the city of Enerhodar and the site of the Zaporizhzhia…

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    During the occupation of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone by Russian troops, the unique laboratories (http://www.ispnpp.kiev.ua/pro-naslidky-rashizmu/) of the Institute for Safety Problems of NPP of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, located in the city of Chornobyl, were destroyed.      However, thanks to the help of fellow scientists from the University of Bristol (UK), the ISP NPP scientists will be able to partially restore their laboratories. The University of Bristol donated a gamma-spectrometer, computers and other equipment as humanitarian aid to the ISP NPP. Scientists from the…

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     It is well known that from the end of February to 31 March, the Exclusion Zone of the Chornobyl NPP, and consequently all facilities on its territory, was under the control of the Russian military. As a result, almost all the property in most of the offices and laboratories of the Institute located in the city of Chornobyl was destroyed.      On 18 July 2022, the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants received humanitarian aid from the Association “Ukrainians in Karlsruhe” (Deutsch-Ukrainischer Verein “Ukrainer in…

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     On July 11-13, 2022, the first meeting of the Steering Committee and Program Group of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident Information Collection and Evaluation (FACE) OECD/NEA Project was held. The FACE project is a continuation of the BSAF, PreADES and ARC-F projects.      The FACE project is implemented with the following general goals: clarification of the interpretation of accident scenarios at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP, including the impact of accident management measures; clarification of current opportunities and directions for further improvement of the modeling of…

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    On June 30, 2022, the Scientific and Practical International Conference “Processing of Liquid Radioactive Waste: Ukrainian Context” was held in Kyiv online. The co-organizers of the conference were the Alfa Atom company, SI “The Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine, the SE “Centralized Enterprise for Radioactive Waste Management”, the SSE “ECOCENTER”, the EU project “Pre-disposal Management of Radioactive Waste” – PREDIS, Professional Association of Environmentalists of Ukraine, National…

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    Employees of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine participated in the preparation of the author’s chapters for the three-volume monograph “Behavior of Radionuclides in the Environment”. The publication was launched in 2020 by the Springer publishing house. The book is registered in the SCOPUS international scientometric database.     The monograph is devoted to the impact of the three largest radiation accidents on the environment in the history of mankind: at the Maiak plant in Kyshtym (1957), at the Chornobyl…

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