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working out of the physical principles and development of the concrete
designs of technical heavy-current superconducting materials;
development of the methods and instrumentation for studying and
control of technical superconductors including those to be used at
industrial enterprises;
development of superconducting magnetic systems both for scientific and
applied research. Usually development of the superconducting magnet is
carried out simultaneously with designing of the relevant cryogenic,
electrotechnical, and diagnostic systems.
Another trend in the applied research is the works on the physics of the linear electron
accelerators (LEA) and applied nuclear physics using the linear accelerator beams
(electron, gamma, and neutron) aimed at the development of the technologies for
science, medicine, industry.
In the framework of the applied research carried out at the Division a new trend of works
has been recently formed, using the method for intensification of the heat- and
mass-exchange. The results of these works indicate the real possibilities of
essential enhancement of the functional and economic efficiency of a wide
spectrum of energy-generation and energy-conversion devices both in science and
industry.
Institute of Molecular Physics
(Director: Prusakov V.N.)
Institute of Applied Chemical Physics
(Director: Chaivanov B. B.)
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Institute of Hydrogen Energy and Plasma Technologies
(Director: academician Rusanov V. D.)
[Rusanov, Vladimir D., D. PM. S. Corresponding member of the Physical Chemistry
and Technology of Inorganic Materials Department of the Academy since 1984;
academician in 1993. He is presently the Director of the Institute of Hydrogen
Energy and Plasma Technologies of the Kurchatov Institute which is involved in
applying the use of hydrogen as an ecologically clean fuel for use in industry and
the generation of nuclear power.]
One of the top-priority tasks of the present is a radical ecological reorganization of the
industry and nuclear power. A most general method of solving this problem
consists in a wide application of hydrogen which is in fact the only ecologically
clean fuel.
Formation of a new subject occurred at the beginning of seventies and passed two stages:
first, research in basic plasma chemistry and formulation of applications, second,
hydrogen power (or " nuclear hydrogen power"). Hydrogen power also passed
two stages of development: the first "economic" stage when a catastrophe due to
depletion of world power resources (oil, gas) was considered real, and the second "
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