Mikhail Kovalchuk Interview.

A very important interview to Ria. Who is Mikhail Kovalchuk? He is the President of the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute. Who is Igor Kurchatov? Well, he is the father of the Soviet A-bomb. So, you do understand now how immensely important this Institute is for fundamental science and national security of Russia. Here is its President talking.

Россия перестала "оплодотворять" мир мозгами — ученые из других стран теперь сами едут к нам за открывающимися возможностями, говорит президент Национального исследовательского центра "Курчатовский институт" Михаил Ковальчук. В интервью РИА Новости он рассказал, в каких сферах российская наука сохраняет лидерство, как ЦЕРН охотится за российскими физиками, от которых сам же избавлялся, чем Курчатовский помогает СВО, почему нашей стране так важно развивать свою технологическую повестку, а также поделился планами по освоению Луны и созданию атомного подледного газовоза и объяснил, зачем Курчатовскому институту заниматься виноделием. Беседовали Владимир Сычев и Диляра Солнцева.

Translation: Russia has stopped "fertilizing" the world with its brains - scientists from other countries now come to us for the opportunities that are opening up, says Mikhail Kovalchuk, president of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute". In an interview with RIA Novosti, he told us in which areas Russian science retains its leadership, how CERN hunts for Russian physicists, whom it itself got rid of, how Kurchatov helps SVO, why it is so important for our country to develop its own technological agenda, and also shared plans for the exploration of the Moon and the creation of a nuclear-powered subglacial gas carrier, and explained why the Kurchatov Institute should engage in winemaking. Interviewed by Vladimir Sychev and Dilyara Solntseva. 

Read the whole thing (Google Translate will do) and pay attention not only to the arrogance of Europeans, but to this thing: 

They really do work on this monster--360 meters long and 180,000 tons of displacement. Well, this is not new, there were some propositions for converting legendary monsters of pr. 941 Akula (not Typhoon--it is NATO designation) into liquid gas carriers.

 

The problem--one has to have fully autonomous (robot) nuclear reactor. They do work on it.  So, read the interview and you will get some ideas.