On May 30, 2023, the Institute’s Seminar was held at the Institute of Nuclear Physics. This Seminar was held in a mixed format (offline/online), which was attended by researchers from the INP, as well as - JINR (Russia), INP (Uzbekistan), the Al-Farabi KazNU and L.N. Gumilyov ENU (Kazakhstan). At the seminar, the reports of the INP researchers, also Associate Professor of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Michael Philip Short, were presented to the participants.
Sayabek Sakhiyev, General Director of the Institute, opened the Seminar with a welcoming speech. He noted that this Institute’s Seminar was organized for the seventh time. He also mentioned that Michael Short, Associate Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, plans to work with 5 candidates of undergraduate and doctoral students of the Institute. “In turn, such cooperation will provide an opportunity to gain extensive international experience for the Institute's researchers” said Sayabek Kuanyshbekovich. Michael Short, Deputy Director of the MIT Center for Plasma Science and Fusion, expressed his gratitude for warm welcome and presented a present to the CEO as a sign of respect. Michael Short, Associate Professor of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, was the first speaker at the Seminar with the Report "Related Effects in Materials Needed to Commercialize Fusion Energy: Combined Radiation and Corrosion". Michael Short described the work on introduction of fusion energy on a 10-15 year time scale for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In the second part, Mikhail Sergeevich Merezhko, Head of the Laboratory of Radiation Materials Science of the INP, provided a presentation "Localized plastic deformation in metals (Cu, Fe) and austenitic stainless steels (12Cr18Ni10Ti, AISI 304) irradiated with neutrons". He described the goals and objectives of this study, showed the samples of ARMCO-iron irradiated in the reactor WWR-K.
Also at the seminar, Kim Elena Radikovna, Junior Researcher of the Laboratory of Radiation Materials Science, made a presentation on the topic: "Results of the research internship at MIT: Studying the properties of EP-450 steel by the TG-spectroscopy method". She shared her experience of the internship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and noted the main problems in the study of microstructure and mechanical properties of materials. She described a new method of this research.
