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The current problems and prospects of Russian nuclear power are discussed in this work based on the material of the report presented at the scientific session of the General Meeting of Members of the RAS on November 13, 2018. The conclusion is made that the nuclear industry could be a powerful driver of scientific and technological progress, a mechanism stimulating the development of a wide range of industrial and technological segments of the national economy.
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The authors are grateful to their colleagues for fruitful discussion of challenging scientific and technical problems of nuclear power, including at the scientific industry conference on April 3–4, 2018. We express our profound appreciation to V.E. Fortov for considering the prospects in the development of nuclear power at the meeting of the Council for Priority Directions of Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation “Transition to Ecologically Safe and Resource-Saving Energy, Increase in Efficiency of Production and Deep Conversion of Raw Hydrocarbons, Formation of New Sources, Methods of Transportation, and Storage of Energy” on October 25, 2018, as well as to E.O. Adamov, V.G. Asmolov, L.A. Bol’shov, A.V. Dub, I.A. Ermakov, O.V. Kryukov, N.N. Ponomarev-Stepnoi, and A.A. Sarkisov for their preparation and for providing the accompanying materials at the meeting.
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Yurii Aleksandrovich Olenin, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), is Deputy Director General for Science and Strategy of the Rosatom State Corp. Viktor Igorevich Il’gisonis, Dr. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), an R&D Line Director of the Rosatom State Corp.
Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2019, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 335–342.
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Olenin, Y.A., Il’gisonis, V.I. Challenging Scientific and Technical Problems of Nuclear Power. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 89, 105–111 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331619020151
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