Czech-Russian nuclear research terminated after over 60 years
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- 14 Mar 2022
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For more than six decades, Czech scientists have been involved in nuclear research at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in the Russian town of Dubna. Now, the Czech Republic has announced it will terminate its long-term cooperation with the Russian institution, following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, one of Europe’s main nuclear research centres, was founded by the Eastern Bloc countries in 1956, just two years after the establishment of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, in Geneva.
One of the 10 founding members of the research centre, located in the Moscow region, was the then Czechoslovakia. Ever since then, Czech scientific activities in the nuclear research field have been closely linked with that institution, says Vladimír Wagner from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences:
“We have recently had a great success with the verification of the neutrino mass, which was part of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment in Germany. It was a follow-up to research carried out in Troitsk and Dubna, which were mostly international projects.” Read More...
