OREANDA-NEWS. The Government of the Russian Federation has prolonged the powers of the president of Kurchatov Institute Yevgeny Velikhov for five years, reports the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Kurchatov institute was established in 1991 on the basis of the I.V.Kurchatov Institute of Nuclear Energy (then the Laboratory 2 of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR). The center is subordinate to the Government of the Russian Federation and is not part of the Russian Academy of Sciences or any ministry. The key activities of the center are nuclear power engineering and nuclear fuel cycle, international thermo-nuclear reactor (ITER) and controlled thermo-nuclear synthesis, nano-technologies and nano-materials, nuclear medicine, information technologies and systems, research for the nuclear weapons complex, the navy and space industry.