Posted on 03/10/2022 6:39:52 PM PST by Meet the New Boss
The National Science Center, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT), which was a hotbed of early nuclear research in the former Soviet Union and currently hosts a newly installed neutron source, has suffered significant damage from Russia’s relentless attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Rockets and bombs have damaged buildings and left civilians wounded, says Oleksandr Bakai, who heads the department of condensed matter and nuclear theory at KIPT and lives near the institute.
The damaged facilities include the constructed but not fully operational Ukraine Neutron Source, according to the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine. After saying in a 7 March press briefing that the neutron source had been destroyed, International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement that Ukraine had informed the IAEA that the facility was “damaged by shelling.”
Despite reports of concerns about a nuclear accident, the facility is an accelerator-driven subcritical assembly and not a critical nuclear reactor. The assembly cannot sustain a chain reaction without neutrons from the accelerator, says Harvard proliferation researcher Matthew Bunn, and it generates virtually zero fission products. In addition, there is no highly enriched uranium onsite...
More than 400 scientists conduct research at KIPT in condensed matter, plasma physics, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics, according to the institute’s website.
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“The National Science Center, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT), which was a hotbed of early nuclear research”
Looks as though Ukraine won’t be building nuclear bombs to threaten Russia with, at least for a while.
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” ― Samuel Johnson
This attack ought to inspire some dramatic scientific breakthroughs.
Well i Guess the first nuclear scare didn’t get the west to be Ukraine’s airforce, than try again.
Ahh, I could be wrong but I'm almost positive that I read somewhere that that is a pretty common occurrence during a war.
Science!
Dang. They were so close to completing the old Suspend the Russian Army in the 5th dimension trap.
Russians announce they have discovered and destroyed Ukraine's nuclear program /s
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