World's leading nuclear physics scientists meet in Novosibirsk

By The Siberian Times reporter

25 February 2013

A two day forum is discussing revolutionary new applications for radiation technology benefiting humankind.

tors (AFAD-2013) is hosted by Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics on 25-26 February.
'We aim to discuss the future of accelerator related technology centres', said Academician Gennady Kulipanov, Deputy Director of Novosibirsk Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics said ahead of the conference.
'Such centres are being organised all over the world and I expect them to be in Russia and in Novosibirsk. We also need to think about creating the consumer markets for radiation technologies. Take the task of utilising nuclear waste. There is quite a unique technology to ray the waste with proton beams which cuts its half-decay period from 200 hundred to just 20 years. It very profitable.'

World's leading nuclear physics scientists meet in Novosibirsk

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Poachers Kill 19 Russian Tigers in 2012-13 – WWF

Amur tigers

MOSCOW, July 31 (RIA Novosti) – At least 19 endangered Siberian tigers, some of the rarest animals on earth, have been killed by poachers in Russia since 2012, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday.
In 2012-2013, Russian investigators launched seven criminal cases against tiger poachers and traders and confiscated the skeletons and body parts from at least 19 dead tigers, Pavel Fomenko, coordinator of the WWF’s branch in Russia's far eastern Amur province, said in a statement.
In August 2008, Putin attached a tracking collar to a Siberian tigress during a visit to the Ussurisky reserve. He was also given a two-month-old Amur tiger cub as a present on his 56th birthday in October 2008. The tigress was named Mashenka and later sent to a zoo in southern Russia.

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