• December 8 Daily S&T Trendletter

    Category:daily
    Date: 08.12.2023
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    • Russia is testing a compact engine for jet drones

     

    The compact gas turbine engine MGTD-22 “Kolibri” began testing at Samara Korolev University. A drone with such an engine with a total takeoff weight of 45 kg will be able to reach a maximum speed of 800 km / h with a maximum flight altitude of 9 kilometers
    Source: RIA

     

    • Rosatom State Corporation plans to develop low-power nuclear power plants

     

    This was announced on December 5 by Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev on the 8th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-28) in Dubai (UAE). On December 4, it was reported that Rosatom plans to build a low-power nuclear power plant in Mongolia. The relevant document was signed between the state corporation and the Mongolian company Mon-Atom
    Source: IZ

     

    • Novosibirsk State Technical University presented the program for the creation and development of an advanced engineering school “Unmanned and manned aviation systems”

     

    The project is being created in the field of design and production of medium and heavy-duty aircraft systems. The total amount of attracted financing from industrial partners and the Novosibirsk region is more than 900 million rubles, including co—financing from the university – 1.1 billion rubles. The main results of the Company’s work will be the training of highly qualified engineers and engineering teams, as well as the production of unique high-tech products for the aircraft industry.
    Source: Universities of the Russian Federation

     

    • The Russian authorities have developed a mechanism to protect against the harm caused by AI technologies

     

    It is assumed that participants in experimental legal regimes in the field of digital innovations (so-called digital sandboxes) will be obliged to insure liability for the negative consequences of their application. And if such consequences have occurred, a special commission with the participation of regulators will analyze the situation.
    Source: RBC

     

    • The Russian woman scientist was awarded the D. I. Mendeleev UNESCO Prize for an innovative method of carbon-nitrogen bond synthesis

     

    Irina Beletskaya, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Faculty of Chemistry at Lomonosov Moscow State University, was awarded by the jury for her fundamental scientific contribution to the development of chemistry, innovative developments of new organometallic reactions and the use of catalysts based on transition metals and metal nanoparticles in organic synthesis
    Source: UNESCO

     

     

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