Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences. In August 2002, a joint US-Russian mission removed 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium from the Vinča Nuclear Institute, to be flown to Russia. [16] In 2009, it was reported that the nuclear fuel storage pool, containing large quantities of radioactive waste, was in poor condition. [17]
Boris Kidrič burial in 1953. Boris Kidrič (10 April 1912 – 11 April 1953) was a Slovene and Yugoslav politician and revolutionary who was one of the chief organizers of the Slovene Partisans , the Slovene resistance against occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941.
The Vinča Nuclear Institute was officially established on 21 January 1948 by the Serbian top physicist Pavle Savić as the Institute for Physics, though construction of the site began in 1947. On 15 October 1958, the institute was the site of a fatal criticality excursion in its heavy water-moderated research reactor. One researcher was killed ...
Language links are at the top of the page. Search. Search
The institute was founded by the State Security Administration (Yugoslavia) in 1949 for atomic weapons research. Initially, the Vinča Nuclear Institute in Belgrade was established in 1948, followed by the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb in 1950 and the Jožef Stefan Institute as an Institute for Physics in the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
In 1956 the institute's first infrared spectrometer (a Perkin Elmer 21) was purchased, which made it possible to begin in-depth research in various fields of the Institute’s activities. In 1992, following the country’s independence Slovenia's National Centre for High-resolution NMR Spectrometry (known as the NMR Centre) was established at ...
The French National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (French: Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, IN2P3), also known as CNRS Nucléaire & Particules, is the coordinating body for nuclear and particle physics in France.
Boris Lazarevich Vishnevsky (born October 15, 1955, Leningrad) is a Russian statesman, political scientist, journalist, public figure, publicist, politician, and opposition figure. He was the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg from September 22, 2016, to September 19, 2021.