Every week at MEPhI is rich in international activities 👋

😉We are sharing the latest developments with you!

👉🏼 On March 29, a delegation from the Talent Exchange Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China visited us.

😆 The guests came to Moscow specifically to learn about the opportunities for the exchange of young specialists through annual internships at MEPhI and Harbin Polytechnic Universities in the fields of nuclear physics, biomedicine, IT and nanotechnology.

👉🏼 On April 1, representatives of the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOM) arrived in MEPhI on a second visit.

📄Rector Vladimir Shevchenko and SIOM Director Chen Weibiao signed a Memorandum of Understanding providing for mutual exchange in the field of higher education and scientific research. It is planned to develop joint research programs and joint use of research infrastructures, create joint research laboratories, organize bilateral symposiums and conferences, exchange students, as well as conduct specialized and comprehensive programs for bachelors, masters and postgraduates.

🤝As a result of the negotiations, representatives of the NRU MEPhI received an invitation to pay a return visit to the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics.

🌏 Leading Chinese universities and research institutes are actively interested in cooperation with MEPhI. Ties with Asian countries are becoming stronger every year!

✍️Where are nuclear technologies used today? ✍️

😆 When we hear about the use of nuclear technology, we almost always imagine a nuclear power plant or the defense industry.

☝🏼But nuclear technology is now spreading to a much wider range of industries.

That's what we want to talk about today ⚡

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⚛️ First of all, it should be said that MEPhI is the flagship university of Rosatom, which has been increasingly developing international cooperation in recent years. Rosatom is a member of many international organizations, including the IAEA, and participates in a number of international projects that are not always related to the construction of nuclear power plants ⚛️

🌿Agriculture. Nuclear technologies are used in agriculture mainly in the form of radioisotope radiation sources. They are used to sterilize food, such as meat, vegetables and fruits. They can also be used to increase the shelf life of products and improve their quality. Such technologies, with the assistance of Rosatom, are actively used in the countries of South America and Southeast Asia.

💊Medicine. Nuclear technologies are widely used in medicine for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. For example, radioisotope diagnostics is used to identify various diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and others. Therapeutic procedures such as radiotherapy use ionizing radiation to destroy cancer cells. Nuclear medicine also includes the production of medical isotopes, which are used to diagnose and treat various diseases. Today, Rosatom contributes to the development of nuclear medicine around the world by opening Research Centers and supplying isotopes to hospitals.

♻️Waste recycling. The most important part of the development of nuclear technologies is waste recycling. Rosatom is engaged in the processing of nuclear waste, including the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. The company is also developing technologies for the safe storage of nuclear waste and minimizing its environmental impact.

🌍It is with these areas that the professions of the future are connected, which will help improve the lives of millions of people on the planet!

🧑🏾‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓Graduates of the MEPhI National Research University become specialists in these fields!

🔝Power your future with MEPhI🔝

The delegation of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI is currently in New Delhi, the capital of India, where it is taking part in the Indian-Russian Education Summit (Indo-Russian Education Summit 2024) 🇮🇳🇷🇺

🥲 The task facing our representatives is to promote the university's educational programs in India. Elena Sarapultseva, MD, Professor, makes a presentation on "Nuclear technologies and biomedicine in MEPhI" (as part of the panel discussion "Cooperation between Russia and India in the field of medical education"), and Anna Rogova, Head of the Education Export Department, presents the topic "MEPhI – the leading Russian university in the field of engineering education" (at the round table "Technical Universities").

🎓 The summit is taking place on the territory of the Russian House in New Daily. The delegation of the NRU MEPhI also plans to visit a number of universities in the Indian capital.

⚛️ The purpose of the delegation is to introduce students from India to MEPhI, to talk about the flagship areas of training and the prospects that studying at our university provides.

🙂There are 2 more exhibition days ahead, we will definitely tell you how they are going!

Did you know that MEPhI is the basic university of the main space corporation in Russia? 👽

👨🏻‍🚀 Yes, indeed, MEPhI cooperates with Roscosmos. And today, on Cosmonautics Day, we want to tell you about the connection of our university with space!

🚀MEPhI formally became the main university of the Roscosmos State Corporation just 2 years ago, in fact, the university has always been one. Yuri Polyakov, Executive Director of Finance at Roscomos, is a graduate of MEPhI, and Yuri Borisov, General Director of Roscosmos, was previously head of the Electronics Department (No. 3) at MEPhI National Research University. Two cosmonauts Nikolai Rukavishnikov and Sergey Avdeev graduated from MEPhI.

💫We talk about MEPhI's space projects💫

🛰️ Satellites and engines for them. Vera and Lena plasma propulsion systems for nano- and microsatellites have been developed at the Laboratory of Rocket Plasma Engines of the Institute of Laser and Plasma Technologies of the MEPhI. Vera has already been tested in space. MEPhI also created the Svyatobor-1 satellite for monitoring forest fires, which was launched on June 27, 2023. It is planned to create a small innovative enterprise for the production of engines for satellites. The main buyer of engines from MEPhI is a Russian private space company.

🌞The NEVOD (that means in Russian ‘net’) catches cosmic rays. The unique scientific installation NEVOD is designed to study cosmic rays. It includes a number of physical installations and detectors that have no analogues in the world. The composition of the detectors is constantly being updated, and this year the vertical TREK detector will be finally assembled. At the end of March, employees of the REC NEVOD using the HURRICANE hodoscope may have been the first to record a unique solar flare — GLE-74.

⭐️What's inside the stars? One of the important areas of space research in which scientists of the MEPhI participate is laboratory astrophysics, studies of extreme states of matter similar to those that occur, for example, inside stars and during catastrophic astrophysical events. Of course, such research requires installations of the "megascience" class, therefore, the MEPhI can carry out such research only in collaboration with other organizations. So, in 2022-2023. MEPhI graduate students took part in an experiment at the BM@N installation as part of the Nuclotron-NICA scientific complex in Dubna near Moscow. During the experiment, conditions close to those that occur in space when neutron stars collide were recreated. These data are currently being analyzed – the first results will be reported at the ICPPA 2024 conference at the MEPhI in October this year.

☄️And this is not all that MEPhI does for the development of space science in Russia and in the world! Today we want to congratulate everyone involved on Cosmonautics Day! 🥳

👽MEPHI is the cosmic power of your future!