What links Moscow and Gandhinagar? Nuclear physics Moscow, June 18: Heres a not-so-touted Russia-India connection: Its to do with nuclear physics and with linking this Russian capital with Gandhinagar, the capital of the western Indian state of Gujarat. Russias Kurchatov Institute National Research Centre is the site of the F-1 reactor that was Eurasias first to achieve a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in 1946. It is the countrys prime research facility on thermonuclear fusion and ion-plasma technologies, work on which in India is carried out only at the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) in Gandhinagar. Both state-funded institutes are linked through the multinational fusion energy initiative - International Thermo-nuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) - being jointly constructed at Cadarache, France, by seven participating nations, including India and Russia. The idea is to demonstrate controlled energy production by the fusion of two isotopes of hydrogen - Deuterium and Tritium. newsbharati//Encyc/2014/6/18/125367.aspx
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:40:32 +0000
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