A new intercontinental ballistic missile "Sarmat" will arrive in the troops by the time the resource of the missiles "Voevoda" is completed. This was announced by Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov. It is almost impossible to intercept this missile, as well as a new nuclear-powered missile. It can fly for more than a day. The same technologies will be used in peaceful programs.
Anton Podkoveno has learned the details.
Discussing a global-scale cruise missile with a nuclear power plant, which the president told the world, our scientists talk about related projects — in the civil sphere.
Yuri Dragunov, Bauman State Technical University: "The development of reactor plants to provide power supply for space vehicles. It was developed by the state corporation of "Rosatom" together with the Kurchatov Institute. The high temperature parameters are impressive, they provide high efficiency, and high efficiency of the power plant. Such installations can be used for low-power nuclear power plants".
This is a promising direction of development of nuclear energy. Now for nuclear power icebreakers "Arktika", "Siberia" and "Ural" and for the future flagship of the Russian icebreaker fleet, "Leader", create compact power plants RITM-200 and RITM-400.
Alexander Sergeev, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences: "A significant point of breakthrough is due to the fact that if such a compact nuclear installation is put on an object, then this object can conquer very long, in fact, infinitely long distances, and the time, during which this installation can work, is also very long".
The missile, which the president spoke about, can literally fly for days, there is enough integrated power in this compact power plant. Another step, including in terms of minimizing nuclear devices, is atomic batteries.
Yuri Dragunov, Head engineer of EETI: "They plan to start the production of nuclear batteries, based on the radioisotope Nickel-63, in which the conversion of beta radiation into electrical energy occurs. Such installations can be used both in healthcare, and for outer space purposes".
The model of the atomic battery was shown a year ago at the Atom-Expo exhibition in Moscow, and it was enlarged for clarity. The size of the real device is only one cubic centimeter. This super battery can work for a very long time.
Peter Gavrilov, Director of the Mining and Chemical Plant: "As an example, I would like to show an analogue, which is widely used in the world today — a clock with tritium illumination. I deliberately put on this watch, it is completely safe, and you see that tritium have exactly the same spectrum of electron energy as Nickel-63, but the half-life of it is much less. And the half-life of Nickel-63 is one hundred years, and this lets you increase the usage time".
Develops nuclear batteries, in particular, Mining and Chemical plant in the Krasnoyarsk Krai. At this closed plant, weapons-grade plutonium has been created for nuclear warheads for more than half a century, and now they are working on peaceful atomic projects. In particular, on nuclear fuel of the next generation, the so-called MOX-fuel. It is used in the latest fast neutron reactors, such as Beloyarsk NPP. And this, like batteries, and new power plants — a kind of fusion of military and civilian technologies, which can even lead to the stars.
Anton Podkovenko — Vesti
