SIRIUS /Federal Territory/, November 29. /TASS/. Russia’s national research center Kurchatov Institute and Iranian organizations will team up for a cooperation program, which will include plans for creating equipment for joint research, Alexander Blagov, the institute’s deputy president has said.
"We are now working on a research program that will cover a wide range of areas, from biology and genetics to nuclear medicine, materials science and the development of new research equipment. It is very important that we are at the stage of setting up facilities and therefore we can complimentarily use the technologies <...> available in Iran and in Russia and form a new experimental base for joint research," he told TASS on the sidelines of the 3rd Congress of Young Scientists.
Blagov said that from Iran the Atomic Energy Organization and the Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute were involved in the project.
"Now we have identified key areas. I think we will approve the program in the near future and get down to work," the Kurchatov Institute’s official concluded.
Earlier, Iran joined the international center for synchrotron, neutron and laser research based on the PIK reactor at St. Petersburg's Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics, which is part of the Kurchatov Institute research center. The PIK high-flux research reactor is one of the mega-science projects being implemented within the framework of the national project Science. It is designed for the study of neutrons, neutron radiation, research of microcosm objects, as well as the development of many other fundamental and applied scientific areas.
The 3rd Congress of Young Scientists is in progress in the Sirius Park of Science and the Arts from November 28 to 30. It is the key annual event of the Decade of Science and Technology and provides the largest platform for a dialogue between advanced and fundamental science, government authorities and the real sector of economy.
TASS is the general information partner of the Congress.