A visit of a delegation of the German Embassy to the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna

   A delegation of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Russia headed by Director of the Economics and Science Department Mr. Wolfgang Dik visited the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research on 4 February 2015.
The programme of the visit included several meetings and excursions to the JINR basic facilities. The guests visited cyclotrons of the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions and the MASHA facility; they were acquainted with one of the IBR-2 channels, where scientists from Germany are working, as well as with environmental research of the Laboratory of Neutron Physics. In the Laboratory for High Energy Physics, they visited the factory of superconducting magnets, the detector laboratories for the NICA accelerator complex.

"There is very good equipment in laboratories which we have visited – W. Dik shared his impressions of the visit. – Research that can be done here is not available in Germany because we do not have a research reactor; we quitted all nuclear programmes, abandoned atomic power stations. We are also interested in large-scale projects which have been discussed – NICA and others. There is a general scientific interest, it is necessary to organize this cooperation with involvement of young scientists."
 The visit was finished with a meeting at the JINR Directorate, where both sides voiced wishes to maintain and increase scientific contacts, to move towards each other in solving financial and operational issues, as well as attract young scientists.