National Nuclear Center in Kurchatov ©tengrinews.kz
Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov wrote in his Twitter account that he had been to the National Nuclear Center in Kurchatov on his working trip round the East Kazakhstan June 22. “Kurchatov…a place where world history was done. For the A-bomb [Lavrentyi] Beria (chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II) was awarded with the order of Lenin (highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union)”, Massimov wrote. The PM also wrote that he was looking forward to meeting a world-renown plasma physicist, Dr. Evgeny Velikhov, serving as president of the Russian Research Center's Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, to discuss tokamak reactor. Besides, Mr. Massimov wants to consider “reclamation of land in Kurchatov area”. Kurchatov is a town in East Kazakhstan Province in northeast Kazakhstan. Named after Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, the town was once the centre of operations for the adjoining Semipalatinsk Test Site.
Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov wrote in his Twitter account that he had been to the National Nuclear Center in Kurchatov on his working trip round the East Kazakhstan June 22.
“Kurchatov…a place where world history was done. For the A-bomb [Lavrentyi] Beria (chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II) was awarded with the order of Lenin (highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union)”, Massimov wrote.
The PM also wrote that he was looking forward to meeting a world-renown plasma physicist, Dr. Evgeny Velikhov, serving as president of the Russian Research Center's Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, to discuss tokamak reactor. Besides, Mr. Massimov wants to consider “reclamation of land in Kurchatov area”.
Kurchatov is a town in East Kazakhstan Province in northeast Kazakhstan. Named after Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, the town was once the centre of operations for the adjoining Semipalatinsk Test Site.