Cloudy weather with clarifications is expected on Tuesday, September 28, in Moscow and the Moscow region, Mikhail Leus, a leading employee of the Phobos weather center, told RIA Novosti.
According to him, light rains are possible at the beginning of the day, they will not be everywhere.
«In Moscow & ndash; plus 9-11, in the region & ndash; plus 7-12», & ndash; said Leus.
The wind is expected to be north-easterly, with a speed of 4-9 meters per second. The atmospheric pressure will significantly exceed the norm (760 millimeters of mercury).
Earlier, the Hydrometeorological Center reported that this week the weather in the center of European Russia corresponds to the concept of “golden autumn”.
Retired from the city of Shakhty Alexander Titov I’m tired of driving on bad roads and start doing small-scale repairs myself. But & nbsp; Gorduma accused him of & nbsp; arbitrariness. АиФ.ги I met with an unrecognized asphalt worker and found out how his story ended.
Agronomist & nbsp; & mdash; asphalt paver
Alexander Titov rolls out a homemade cart from the garage, on which he transported pieces of asphalt for sealing holes on the roads.
“I came up with the asphalting technology myself, I did everything on the eye, but it keeps capital,” says the pensioner АиФ.ги. & mdash; & nbsp;The pit was laid with pieces of asphalt, covered with asphalt chips, this machine structure was rolled like a roller. The material was taken from the place of road repairs, there is a lot of waste there. I decided — why should good disappear, I’d rather implement a good deed for my beloved city.
Alexander Titov became famous in the Mines thanks to his volunteer work. Photo: AiF/Vitaly Kolbasin
A 65-year-old former agricultural scientist has been filling up holes in roads for seven years.
“There was a pit on the road to the dacha at a sharp turn. It was poorly seen by drivers, so those who did not know flew into it, beat the headlights, damaged the wheels. I covered it with gravel, broken bricks, leveled it. With this my volunteer hobby» began, — explains Alexander Titov.
This August, in the Mines, a pensioner issued a shock series of small-scale repairs in the third largest city of the Rostov region, almost 230 thousand people live here. residents.
He «paved» pits on roads of the city adjacent to central streets Derzhavin, Sadovaya, Victory Avenue of the Revolution. The volunteer’s activity has received public approval. Taxi and bus drivers thank him and wish him good health. Passers-by shake his hands.
“You didn’t save me from a deep hole once,” a female driver once told him.
Thanks & mdash; warning
The City Duma of Shakhty responded to the volunteer’s activity with a letter to his address. His work, in fact, was recognized as illegal and dangerous both for himself and for automobile traffic.
& laquo;I express my gratitude for the & nbsp; indifference and & nbsp;attention paid to problematic areas of automotive work», & nbsp; & mdash; I wrote to him glava of the city of Shakhty & mdash; Chairman of the City Duma Andrey Gortsevskaya.
Then, in a letter, the volunteer was reminded of the federal laws on Road safety and the Code on Administrative Violations. The point is that his activities may fall under penalties.
The pensioner received a letter from the City Duma. Photo: AiF/Vitaly Kolbasin
“The letter says that there are fines for damage to roads and intentional interference with the creation of traffic, including by polluting the roadway with foreign objects. In all cases, I have not violated these rules, says an unauthorized asphalt paver. Before repairing the pits, I am recommended to apply for a permit to the Department of Urban Economy.
In a conversation with a correspondent АиФ.ги Alexander Titov focuses on the following details.
“Before repairing, I paid attention to the fact that there was no transport, and if I appeared, I went to the side so as not to interfere with the passage. I eliminated all the holes on secondary and general roads where there is no heavy traffic.
People’s Controller
The news that the volunteer was banned from small-scale repairs quickly spread in the city.
At the moment of our conversation, the residents of the city and a traffic police officer came to the asphalterer.
“I came to Alexander Vasilyevich on the instructions of the prosecutor’s office, which is dissatisfied with the way the city administration performs road repairs, citizens are forced to eliminate holes on the roads themselves,” explains АиФ.ги traffic police inspector of Shakhty for road supervision Sergey Gorbunov.
A retired volunteer gave the inspector a disk with a photo report on the results of his raid. On it are comments and characteristics of dangerous pits.
& laquo;Here’s my phone for you, we will cooperate, you will see a hole & nbsp; & mdash; signal, & mdash;the traffic police inspector is communicating with Alexander Titov. — I will transmit the information to the administration. There are regulations on the repair of roads, if they do not have time to eliminate the shortcomings, then we will influence them through the prosecutor’s office!»
The inspector offered the pensioner to be the people’s controller.
The neighbor of the volunteerLyudmila Viktorovna joins our conversation.
The pensioner on his Oka knows all the pits of the city of Shakhty. Photo: AiF/Vitaly Kolbasin
“I live with Alexander Vasilyevich in the same entrance,” explains a resident of the Mines. & mdash; He is a good fellow, persistent, does not get away from problems, he fills up holes several times. At least someone would help him! On the contrary, the comrades from the administration building say that it is impossible for him to fill up the holes, because this is how they keep his health, like, so that the car does not hit him!”
Another came to the volunteer with a specific offerretired, Nikolai Vazhenin. He handed his countryman a piece of paper with addresses where there are open hatches on the roads.
& laquo;All hope is on & nbsp; Alexander Vasilyevich, his power has heard and & nbsp; reacts to & nbsp;his activities, & nbsp; & mdash; explains the man. I also ask him to pay attention to the traffic light crossing, where the dirt on the knee does not go to moms with strollers and schoolchildren.
The paradox is that in the administration there are people with opportunities, experience and financial capabilities. It turned out that the residents of the Mines do not notice the work of road workers much, and they noticed a pensioner with a cart.
Electrical volunteers may appear
Chairman of the City Duma & nbsp; & mdash; head of the city of Shakhty Andrey Gortsevskoy talked to journalists. He issurprised by such a huge attention to the situation from the media and citizens.
«We thanked Alexander Vasilyevich for his work. To say that we will award him a fine is not true, because it is not our authority. This is the authority of the city administration, and we are the legislators. We explained to him what he might face. When going out on a road with heavy traffic, you need to observe safety precautions.
The volunteer repaired 30 holes on the roads and received dozens of thanks from fellow countrymen Photo: AiF/Vitaly Kolbasin
Andrey Gortsevskoy continued: “We proceeded from the fact that the life of drivers and his own is the most important thing. To carry out such work, you need to have the appropriate permission, to inform the traffic police, not to create traffic jams. Its activities may be subject to administrative fines.
The chairman of the City Duma also drew attention to the fact that the work of a pensioner may be unsafe for citizens.
& laquo;Its technology — old pieces of asphalt are covered with an old halyard & mdash; is not safe for traffic. We may also have electrical volunteers… We must do such work within the framework of the legislation, so that there is order.
Andrey Gortsevskoy suggested that pensioner Alexander Titov cooperate with the city authorities to photograph pits on roads and monitor road works, instead of repairing streets at his own expense.
The head of the City Duma explained why there is such a deplorable state of roads in the mines
“There are enough problems.& nbsp;20 & nbsp;years ago, all the coal enterprises in the city were liquidated, on which the infrastructure was maintained & mdash;these remnants still affect. About 50 million rubles a year have been allocated from the city budget for pit repairs, which is very small. The city is stretched across the villages where the mines worked, and this is another difficulty in the maintenance of the roadway.
Completed the five-year plan ahead of schedule
Alexander Titov has temporarily suspended his activities today. For repairs, you need warm weather so that the asphalt crumbs “grab” like concrete, yes, and there is no material nearby.
He was enthusiastic about his new role as a public controller.
“After the agronomist, I worked as an inspector-photographer in the household services of the population,” he recalls. During the Soviet times, he carried out a large social burden, was a member of the trade union committee, chairman of the commission on labor protection. His 12th five-year plancompleted for 3 years and 10 months, for which he received the title of “Excellent Student of consumer services of the population”. Therefore, for me, being a controller is a familiar state.
It is necessary to move around the city not only for healthy and capable people, but also for people with limited mobility. What is being done in the country to make our cities convenient and accessible for them? And how does the national project help in this?
Ignatov Brothers Street in Perm on the section from Mira Street to Cosmonauts Highway was reconstructed. And & nbsp;at the same time, they did not just bring the regulatory state to the standard, but also created conditions for people with disabilities to move comfortably. This is very important here, because the street passes through the Hospital Town-this is the name of the microdistrict where the buildings of the city clinical hospital named after M. A. Tverye, the maternity hospital and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Moscow State Medical University are located. Academician E. A. Wagner.
Now parking spaces for people with limited mobility are equipped along the roadway, and curbs are lowered in the area of exits from sidewalks. Tactile tiles are laid on pedestrian crossings so that visually impaired people can determine the beginning of movement along the roadway and its completion.
In Lipetsk after repair according to the national project of one of the main city
The entire appearance of Zegel Street has changed from the roundabout with Plekhanov Square to Heroes Square. Fresh asphalt and new curbs, neat pedestrian zones and bike paths for the first time. Special attention is paid to the convenience of low-mobility citizens.
Two of them, Roman Bobylev and& nbsp;Ekaterina Zvereva, tested the innovations first. They liked the exits at the crossings and ramps near the parking areas in the area of houses No. 23a and 30, and also parking spaces for people like them. After their approval, the work was accepted by the acceptance commission.
“The allocated places are located in the center of the street, you can park your car here and get to any house or store ―” Ekaterina Zvereva explained. — And with roadways made entrances to the sidewalk, it is very convenient & raquo;.
In Novokuznetsk, curbs are lowered at pedestrian crossings, and the first traffic light in the city, where you can call the green light, has started working at the PBX stop along Aviatorov Avenue. When it is lit, an audible alarm is also activated. Tactile tiles were laid on the approaches to the pedestrian crossing where the traffic light is installed.
The chairman of the Novokuznetsk organization of the All-Russian Society of the Blind, Stanislav Kushch, is glad of the innovations and hopes that the improvement of the city in this direction will continue.
“If we compare it with what it was 10 years ago, of course, it’s getting better,” he says.
Low floor and comfortable handrails
The national project “Safe and high-quality highways” includes the federal project “Modernization of passenger transport in urban agglomerations”. According to him, the city received 387 low-floor buses, trolleybuses and trams from 412 planned for this year. In addition to the adjustable height of the floor level, they have a folding ramp, a place and means for attaching a wheelchair, and also an external driver call button.
In Izhevsk, for example, new trams are operating on the tenth route, the longest and busiest. Since their release, the number of flights has increased by 45 per day. Then & nbsp;there are now passengers for a long time at & nbsp; stops do not & nbsp; stand.
« We with & nbsp;daughter almost every day we go on the tenth route to an inclusive kitchen, & nbsp; & mdash; shared the mother of a child with cerebral palsy Elena Mokhova. Of course, I really like the new trams. At the entrance, the floor is lowered for us, the handrails on both sides are also comfortable. I would like to say a special thank you to all the drivers and conductors. They always help us, waiting for us if we are delayed at the entrance.
The road workers of Udmurtia have established a dialogue with the regional organizations of the All-Russian Society of the Blind and the public organization “Good”.
«Last year, we & nbsp; appealed to the head of Udmurtia with a request to include us in the road commissions, & nbsp; & mdash; told Deputy Chairman of the public organization of wheelchair users„Benefit & ldquo; Sergey Merkuryev. It was important for us that the urban environment for wheelchair users became more accessible. And they heard us. At all the objects of the national project in Izhevsk, we showed in practice whether a wheelchair user can overcome the slope of the sidewalk or move over a curb stone.
In the whole country, within the framework of the national project, “Safe and high-quality highways” last year, more than 1.3 thousand objects providing unhindered movement of people with limited mobility led to a regulatory state. This year, another 1.6 thousand will be added to them. About 400 objects have already been put into operation.
On September 25, an eco-race was held in Chelyabinsk on the site of the former city dump. On the reclaimed territory in the Metallurgical District, a 5-km-long highway was built. Young athletes and fans of an active lifestyle responded vividly to the invitation to take part in the ECO RACE, as the competition was called. They demonstrated not only endurance, but also agility, flexibility, strength, because there were two dozen different kinds of obstacles on the track, and everything had to be overcome.
Deputy Minister of Ecology of the Chelyabinsk region Vitaly Bezrukov He said that this race was held to increase the interest of the younger generation in the problems of their environment.
The Chelyabinsk landfill was located in the city, just 700 m from the residential development and 2 km from the Miass River. It was operated for 70 years, until 2018, and became famous throughout the country as the largest in Europe: the area is 74.5 hectares, the height is 40 m, the volume is 17.5 million cubic meters.
Thanks to the national project “Ecology”, work on neutralizing its harmful effects on the environment in 2019 has finally begun. The Federal Environmental Operator (Rosatom’s enterprise) completed them this year, using the most advanced global solutions for this purpose.
The entire territory has been reclaimed. A sarcophagus was built, which isolated the waste, preventing the release of landfill gases into the air and leachate effluents into the ground. Reinforced edges exclude the possibility of landslides. The soil is poured on top & nbsp; & mdash; as a result, a green hill appeared on the dump site.
Measurements of the mobile laboratory of the public organization “AntiSmog” have shown that the influence of this recently dangerous object on the atmosphere of the city has been reduced to zero. And the participants of the race appreciated it with their noses.
In the whole city, where more than 1 million people live, emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere after reclamation decreased by 30%. And taking into account the fact that the dumping of landfill filtrate has stopped, we can say that poisoning of water and land has been prevented.
Residents will decide
Within the framework of the federal project “Clean Country” (included in the national project “Ecology”) now work is underway on the reclamation of a landfill in another city of a million people, Nizhny Novgorod.
There, the Shuvalov landfill is one of the most problematic objects of accumulated environmental damage. The waste will be extracted from it and separated. Small fractions will be turned into recultivant soil and returned back, and large fractions will be delivered to the waste storage site. To date, 145 thousand tons of them have been extracted, clearing 2 hectares of the territory out of 17. The work is going on around the clock, and it is planned to complete it by the end of next year.
“What will happen here will be decided by the residents themselves. Perhaps they will want a public space, a park or a forest plantation to appear. It is important that there will never be a landfill here again, & nbsp; & mdash; believes Deputy Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Andrey Betin.
A little less than the Shuvalov landfill, the landfill of solid household waste in Sudak occupies 11 hectares of land, and the volume of garbage accumulated here for many years is 410 thousand cubic meters. It, like other landfills in the Crimea, is also being liquidated, and work here is going ahead of schedule.
And in the Saratov region, until 2024, an unauthorized landfill should be reclaimed in the Engels industrial zone, which is also huge: it covers an area of 26.6 hectares.
The key goal of the federal project “Clean Country” of the national project “Ecology” is to reduce the environmental damage associated with the disposal of solid household waste, and to reduce the environmental risks associated with objects of accumulated environmental damage. It is planned to reclaim especially dangerous objects until 2024 —the Krasny Bor and Usolye-Sibirskoye landfills, as well as the territory of the former Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill. In addition, an interactive information system will be created: according to reports from individuals and public organizations, unauthorized garbage dumps throughout the country will be detected and eliminated in a timely manner.
Electricity in France and Germany has risen in price on a record: forward contracts have updated the maximum and were marked at the level of 110 euros per MWh. Experts are sure that this is not the limit: by the end of the month, prices for Europeans will become even higher.
The increase in tariffs for EU residents is associated with “green” energy, which many advocated. But you have to pay for everything. For games with the rejection of gas and coal, for example, you have to pay for an increase in expenses. Moreover, many sociologists believe that the growth of dependent moods has to be paid for playing in the welfare society and self-realization.
Experts on international relations write that Europe is driving itself into a corner, but at the same time, when problems begin, it begins to blame someone from outside. And most often, for some reason, the “defendant” is Russia. For example, there are now a huge number of reports in the European press regarding the fact that it is unfair to pay so much to Russia for gas. But at the same time, no one wants to remember that back in November 2010 Vladimir Putin I warned the participants of the Berlin forum: “I don’t understand at all what you will drown with… You don’t want gas, you don’t develop nuclear energy. And what, are you going to heat firewood? But firewood is also necessary to go to Siberia.
Going to Siberia is not an option for Europeans. Russia should live in Siberia and its riches. Only there will be no riches if you listen to European intellectuals and such specialists in the development of energy systems as Anatoly Chubais. At a briefing of the Association for the Development of Renewable Energy, he talks about the need to rethink the goals of the Russian energy industry, that “thanks to a well-designed strategy,” the price of energy generated by the sun and wind has already come close to the usual price.
However, Siberia, where the heating season lasts for 9 months, is heated not by solar panels and wind turbines, but by gas and coal. And if it is not heated, even the pipelines through which oil flows, the revenues from which fill the country’s budget, will freeze. There will be no gas, no metals, no defense products, only wind turbines and clean energy will remain. But at the same time, you will have to pay a lot for energy.
Experts are sure that in such complex issues as energy and infrastructure, it is not worth listening to young representatives of environmental movements, who make up them for the most part. We are talking about those who, with burning eyes, talk about saving the planet.
According to experts, such activists are often used as a screen, but in reality they have not grown up to understand the problem. At this time, there is a redistribution of world markets and the formation of new and new restrictions for the products of the basic branches of Russian export: oil, gas, coal, metals.
Now Russia is preparing to introduce a new tax on carbon emissions. But this is not really about the industry, experts say. The Institute of National Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences estimated what would happen if such a tax was introduced at the “European” level (50 euros per ton of carbon dioxide). Prices for heat will increase by 80%, for electricity-by 25%. Such are the European standards.
But, if you listen to the supporters of “green” energy, there is nowhere without it: we will miss our historical chance, we will lose technologies. It sounds like you just need to submit to fate and European ideas about what is right and wrong.
But Russia has always been wrong for Europeans. After all, defending the national interests of Russia is wrong from the point of view of Europeans. But this is exactly what the Foreign Minister is doing now on the eve of the next UN climate conference Sergey Lavrov, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov.
At the Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov he said: “Russia should go its own way, and not the way that is imposed on us, in particular, by Western partners. Of course, Russia will take into account all trends, but I want to emphasize that we should not lose our natural advantages.
The Royal Navy is entering a new era. Work has begun on the first of the five ships that are the mainstay of the future fleet. The project is called “Inspiration”. Recently, a demonstration ceremony of cutting steel for the ship was held. In just two years, the first ship of the new class 31 called Venturer will be launched. In seven years, he will be joined by «classmates»: Active, Bulldog, Campbeltown and Formidable. They will replace some of the Type 23 frigates.
British shipyards are producing two new classes of frigates for the navy for the first time in more than 30 years. The British Navy is currently armed with 13 Type 23 frigates. This class of ships is also called Duke, because they are all named after English dukes. The British military received the first Type 23 frigate in 1989 and should write it off in 2023.
Eight Dukes will replace the Type 26 frigates, which are being developed by BAE Systems. Their length will be 149.9 meters, width-20.8 meters, and displacement-6.9 thousand tons. Type 26 ships will be able to reach speeds above 26 knots. Their range will exceed seven thousand nautical miles.
The remaining five Type 23 ships are to replace the Type 31 frigates. Babcock received the contract for their construction in 2019. These will be ships with a displacement of 5.7 thousand tons, approximately 140 meters in length. They will receive Sea Ceptor anti-aircraft missile systems, one 57-millimeter and two 40-millimeter artillery installations from their weapons. It will be able to reach a speed of 28 knots (52 km/h) with a power reserve of 17 thousand km.
It is expected that the new ships will serve around the world, they will have to solve diverse tasks: detecting submarines, intercepting and suppressing illegal activities at sea, collecting intelligence data, participating in defense and providing humanitarian support.
The new project has a beautiful name & laquo; Inspiration». Each representative of this class will be equipped with a Sea Ceptor anti-aircraft missile system, a 57-mm main gun and two 40-mm Bofors, a 4D radar and a vehicle, will be able to carry a Merlin helicopter or its equivalent. A variety of use cases will provide modularity, which will become the new standard for the British Navy. It provides for the use of universal structural modules that can be changed and combined depending on the tasks and conditions of the current mission, even on the high seas.
Modules the size of a transport container will be compatible with all new ships and submarines. They can accommodate drones, autonomous equipment for searching for mines, a command center for landing, humanitarian aid, a surgical department and much more.
Venturer, the first ship of the project, is named after a World War II submarine that made history by torpedoing a submarine when both were under water.
According to the British vice admiral, the Type 31 ships are the best that was with British shipbuilding. Thanks to its modular design, it can be configured to meet the needs of both the Royal Navy and allies around the world, now and in the future.
The Type 31 ships will operate all over the world, which underlines the country’s eternal desire to maintain the leading position of a naval power on the world stage.
What really makes you shudder is the price: all five ships of the Inspiration project are being built at a price of 250 million pounds, that is, 25 billion rubles apiece.
The American technology company L3Harris Technologies (a Pentagon contractor) reported that the American Agency for the Development of Space Technologies has approved a new satellite project capable of detecting and tracking hypersonic weapons in flight. Preparations are underway for the production of this satellite. L3Harris has been allocated for the development of this project193 million dollars, and SpaceX Corporation – 149 million. The promising satellite will become part of the US Missile Danger Early Warning network. It will be equipped with infrared sensors with the possibility of viewing in a wide spectrum. L3Harris also received an order for the development of a similar prototype and $ 121 million from the Missile Defense Development Agency.
The satellites of the American missile attack warning system currently in orbit are not designed to track hypersonic targets. The system was designed for ballistic missiles, not hypersonic missiles, which are faster, less predictable and harder to detect. Their infrared sensors are designed to detect the thermal signatures of ballistic targets, which are much brighter and more noticeable. In fact, the devices go blind when it comes to hypersonic cruise missiles and gliding warheads. In addition, its satellites are too high for hypersonic weapons: in geostationary orbits.
Therefore, in addition to this system, the Pentagon plans to create a powerful orbital grouping of hundreds of satellites in near space that can detect and track hypersonic signals. The architecture of this system uses the idea of small, relatively cheap and easily replaceable satellites. The system will be continuously improved, its satellites will be able to detect signalsabout launches of hypersonic missiles in conditions of organized interference and background noise. Fundamentally new satellites located in low orbits will be guaranteed to detect hypersonic missiles already at the launch stage and take them for escort. A year ago, the Pentagon ordered a corresponding development for $ 350 million: in 2023, 8 experimental vehicles will be launched into space.
Each device will take control of a certain area of the terrain and, seeing a hypersonic target, will inform the rest of the missile defense system, which means that it will immediately launch it.
At the next stage, the Hypersonic Ballistic Tracking Space Sensors system will come into play, the development of which began in January 2021. These orbiters will take over the baton immediately after the hypersonic rocket is detected and will take it to escort. An array of ground, space and sea sensors is used to track the rocket to predict its trajectory. Their task is to provide information for launching and launching an interceptor into the target area. The HBTSS prototype is promised to be shown in 2023.
However, to detect the target and take on the escort is only half the battle. It still needs to be shot down, and there are still problems with this. According to American experts, in order to intercept a hypersonic missile going at a speed of Mach 5, you need to accelerate to at least Mach 8 or attack on the oncomingcourse. Currently, there are no technologies that can implement this, but it is possible that they will appear in the near future.
The US Department of Defense plans to assemble a prototype of a mobile nuclear microreactor at the Idaho National Laboratory. Such reactors will be able to provide energy for various types of weapons in hard-to-reach regions, while there are military bases in other countries. However, experts believe that the project, to put it mildly, is not safe, and may not be as effective as it seems at first glance.
The energy consumption of the US military department is 30 terawatt-hours of electricity per year and more than 10 million gallons of fuel per day. And it will increase significantly over the next few years. One of the ways to solve the energy problem was proposed by the Council for Defense Sciences. It is proposed to create small modular reactors that will be safe, small in size with the possibility of its transportation. Such a technical solution will allow energy-consuming projects in any place of the planet without increasing costs.
The program involving the creation of a mobile advanced microreactor is known as the “Pele Project”, it is supervised by the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capabilities. The project is a joint work with the participation of the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the US Army Corps of Engineers and private sector enterprises. “The Pele project” at this stage is not intended for a specific type of armed forces or type of troops, but includes specialists in the field of defense who meet a variety of requirements.
As previously stated in the Pentagon, the military needs a mobile microreactor capable of generating from 1 to 10 megawatts. In 2019, the requirements were as follows: a mobile reactor for the army should not weigh more than 40 tons, be transported by truck, plane or ship, work without recharging in semi-automatic mode, while generating from 1 to 10 megawatts.
It is assumed that such a reactor will not require high construction costs and will operate for 18 hours a day for 40 years.
It is possible that some of these requirements have been changed, there is no exact information about the technical specifications for such reactors yet.
The Idaho National Laboratory defines micronuclear reactors as small installations that produce approximately 1-50 megawatts and can operate independently of electrical networks. Two teams, BWXT Advance Technologies from Virginia and X-energy from Maryland, are developing the final design of the prototype, which will be reviewed by the department in early 2022. After completing the environmental analysis of the project, one of the teams will be selected to create and demonstrate a prototype.
However, the project is far from being ideal from the point of view of security. Experts express concerns that microreactors may become a vulnerable target, especially during their transportation. Additional work will be required to make the reactors safe for use, especially in a combat situation or on foreign bases. It is extremely dangerous to place existing prototypes of nuclear reactors in areas of intense military operations without providing protection for them. Even a minor damage to the shell of a mobile reactor can lead to tragic consequences.
The Pentagon recognizes that a direct hit into the reactor will lead to the device’s failure. Therefore, various options for their protection are being considered. One of the most realistic is to create special protective structures underground. However, this can lead to problems with air cooling, lead to core meltdown from-and ultimately cause the reactor to overheat.
There is also a threat of seizure of reactors. If the American base where the mobile reactor is located is captured, the radioactive waste of the reactor can be used for terrorist attacks in the form of a dirty bomb.
And, finally, it will be difficult to deliver the reactors to the bases by air transport, there will be problems with the approval of such transportation by the countries through which the aircraft will fly with the device on board.
The Great ring line of the Moscow metro will become a world record holder among the “metrocycles” for the length of 70 kilometers. Now the next sections are being prepared for the opening.
About the features of new stations and modern technologies in the construction of the metro in an interview АиФ.ги told Yuri Kravtsov, General Director of the engineering holding “Mosinzhproekt” – general designer and general contractor for the construction of new lines and stations of the Moscow metro.
— & nbsp;Technical launches of new sections of the Big Ring Line have recently taken place. Which stations will open their doors to passengers in the near future?
— In September, we conducted technical inspections of three sections & mdash; in the west, south-west and south of the Big Ring. In total, the segment of the BCL from Mnevnikov to Kakhovskaya was tested. A total of nine new stations will be opened by the end of the year — «Terekhovo», «Kuntsevskaya», «Davydkovo», «Aminevskaya», «Michurinsky Prospekt», «Vernadsky Avenue», «Innovative», «Vorontsovskaya»;, « Zyuzino». And the tenth will be the reconstructed Kakhovskaya.
& mdash; How can we assess the readiness of the BCL as a whole now?
& mdash; If we talk about general construction readiness, it is approaching 90%. We plan to complete all the tunneling work by the end of this year. Let me remind you that a total of 31 stations will be opened on the bolshoy ring, 12 of them are currently operating. With the opening of new sections, 22 stations will already receive passengers.
— & nbsp;How will the new metro sections affect the transport system of Moscow?
— The opening of only one western section of the BCL will allow residents of five Moscow districts — this is 700 thousand people & mdash; to reduce the travel time to work by about 40%, and tens of thousands of citizens will have a metro within walking distance for the first time. In addition, the workload of existing stations will be significantly reduced. The significance of the new metro line for the city is evidenced at least by the fact that the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, personally supervised all three technical launches.
& mdash; & nbsp;What difficulties did you encounter during construction?
New sections are being built in areas with dense buildings, near major transport highways and existing metro lines. The work is often carried out in cramped conditions, we have to face a lot of engineering and technological tasks, but we manage to solve them all quickly.
& mdash; & nbsp; Due to what it was possible to achieve a high speed of introduction of new stations?
& mdash; Huge human resources are involved in the construction site. Only 11 out of 15 thousand BCL builders are working on the sites that are being prepared for launch this year. And in total, more than 21 thousand people work on the construction of the Moscow metro facilities. With the help of the implementation of the project management methodology, we managed to ensure that this huge mechanism worked like a clock.
& mdash; & nbsp;How do digital technologies help in the construction of BCL?
“Mosinzhproekt” holding actively uses information modeling (BIM) technologies. For example, they allow you to quickly determine the specifications of the necessary equipment and the exact amount of materials. All this significantly reduces the time for creating new objects.
The Moscow Metro is also a unique architectural structure. What will surprise the new stations in this regard?
— We observe the traditions of Moscow metro builders — all new stations have a unique design. For example, the architectural appearance of the station “Michurinsky Prospekt” uses Chinese motifs, and the station “Davydkovo” is dedicated to the work of Russian rescuers. However, very soon passengers will be able to see and evaluate everything for themselves.
On September 23, 2021, the premiere of the film directed by took placeGleb Panfilov & laquo; Ivan Denisovich & raquo; according to the story Alexander Solzhenitsyn “One day of Ivan Denisovich”.
The story, which had the original title & laquo;Sch-854. One day of a convict ” opened the world to the writer Solzhenitsyn, and the topic of political repression as such in Soviet literature.
In a 1982 interview with the BBC, Solzhenitsyn recalled: “It’s absolutely clear: if it wasn’t for Tvardovsky as the editor-in-chief of the magazine, no, this story would not have been published. But I’ll add it. And & nbsp;if it would not have been Khrushchev at that moment, too, it would not have been printed. More: if & nbsp;Khrushchev had not attacked at this very momentStalin another time & nbsp; & mdash; too & nbsp; would not & nbsp;have been printed».
Here we must keep in mind this: Solzhenitsyn himself for two decades has made the way from a talented writer, whose abilities delighted Tvardovsky, to a man whose works, alas, far from historical truth, were actively used by the machine of Western agitprop against the Soviet Union.
For those who are interested in this topic, I address one fact of Alexander Isaevich to the material. Why is Solzhenitsyn a writer, and not a historian?”raquo;, written seven years ago.
By a different path
But in One day of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn did not yet rise to historical generalizations, but told about, as one of the critics wrote, the camp through the eyes of a peasant.
For the people who lived in that time, the opportunity to openly talk about the repressions was extremely important, because they, in one way or another, affected many.
But & nbsp;here’s the question & mdash; and & nbsp;who needs & laquo; Ivan Denisovich» in 2021 & nbsp; year? Especially this one, completely redone. As stated by the director Panfilov in an interview with “Kommersant”: “I took a different path and invented my story of Ivan Denisovich based on the motives of the story. And & nbsp;it turned out & mdash;„ Five days of Ivan Denisovich & ldquo;, five key days of his life. Starting with the first one, when on the eve of the 1941 parade on Red Square, he arrived in Moscow to get a new ZIS-3 cannon and deliver it to the part of his battery near Volokolamsk.
Stalin is a fool, he smokes tobacco…
Do you want a serious conversation about that time? You will not wait for Panfilov to twist the barrel for you in the best traditions of the “Light” of the late 1980s. Once again, we have a real hero who became an innocent victim of Soviet tyranny, which is ready to wipe out everyone and everything in the dust of the camp.
It would seem that it has long been established that there was no general accusation of prisoners of war of treason to the Motherland, and those who ended up in the Soviet camp were an absolute minority. Yes, and the GULAG system itself looked different in different years and in different places, and it had nothing to do with the Hitler extermination system.
What about, for example, the fact that the author of “One day of Ivan Denisovich” in this very system of total destruction, which they draw the GULAG, was cured of cancer? How does this fit into the pictures drawn by him himself, and drawn by those who make films based on his works?
Remove & mdash;do not turn the bags
It would be possible, of course, to say that “people will figure it out” themselves. But this is unlikely, because the idols of young people are characters who do not understand much simpler historical issues. If a blogger with almost 19 million subscribers, Ms. Ivleeva does not know in what century he lived and ruled Peter the Great, what is his last name, she does not say anything about the last name Dzhugashvili is it worth it to expect that her fans will have a serious conversation about negativity and positivity in the Soviet era?
In Panfilov’s case, everything is relegated precisely for primitive perception. Here is an inhumane system for you, in which there was nothing good, and here is an innocent martyr. Take the historical picture in this form, and that’s it.
And this is far from the first case of primitivization of history. In the Union of Salvation, the Decembrists were turned into punks trying to destroy the statehood out of hooligan motives, in Zoe, the communists made a Christian martyr, and so on. And this is despite the fact that at theWe, at least officially, are fighting fiercely against attempts to falsify history. But what about the fact that schoolchildren are offered Solzhenitsyn’s works in the program, which is a form of crime to give children without comments and explanations?
The Creator and & laquo;gopniki & raquo;
Panfilov gives out masterpieces of this kind not for the first time. The author of the films«There is no ford in the fire & raquo; and & laquo;The beginning» back in & nbsp;2000 pleased with the saga & laquo;The Romanovs. The crowned family, ” from the amount of oil in which the most recent Russian emperor would have vomited. What does this have to do with a serious understanding of the Romanov tragedy? Well, it’s about the same as a striptease show for pure and immaculate love.
Not everyone knows, but Panfilov was the author of the script in the infamous Mikhalkov’s “Coming” and “Citadel”, which can hardly be considered anything other than an outrage on the history of the Great Patriotic War. That & nbsp;there is for & nbsp;all this trash and & nbsp; fumes & laquo; thank you & raquo; it is necessary to say not & nbsp; only Nikita Sergeevich, but and & nbsp;Gleb Anatolyevich.
Judging by the & nbsp;first reaction of the audience, & laquo;Ivan Denisovich»the public did not like it . But our filmmakers, as you know, do not draw conclusions, preferring to define their critics as “gopnik” and “Stalinists”.
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By the way, Panfilov was originally going to present “Ivan Denisovich” in May 2020, to the 75th anniversary of the Victory. But the pandemic saved us from such a dubious gift for the holiday.
It seems that the backbone of our cinematic crowd is not ready for changes, the ideological attitudes of the 1990s are firmly seated in the heads of the creators, and this also applies to young directors and screenwriters.
But you can’t bring up patriots with Ivan Denisovich. And if the state is thinking about the future, it is necessary to give young people a product of a completely different quality and ideological content right now.
And the former head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Sverdlovsk City Committee of the Komsomol, communist Gleb Panfilov, cannot be changed in his old age.
