OREANDA-NEWS. February 16, 2010. The second All-Russia scientific-technical conference "Nuclear Siberia — XXI century" was opened in Zheleznogorsk. The Mining and Chemical Combine collected together scientists and experts from all cities in Russia, where there are institutions and companies associated with nuclear energy.

Scientists have access to the boldest assumptions. According to some of them, already in the first 50 years the natural fuel reserves will run out and there will be need in an alternative source of energy, they break head over its development right now in the world. Stanislav Subbotin, the representative of the Kurchatov Institute, is sure: this should be a source of nuclear energy. So far it is understood only by the scientists.

Arguments of the nuclear physicists are unconvincing to the world of economy. The whole system will just collapse. But scientists act aggressively and grow an army of specialists on the base of SFU. And the fact that 36 participants from all over the country gathered here is not accidental. The majority of the enterprises of the nuclear industry are located in Siberia. They have hi-tech technologies, which only a few of countries can afford.

The conference "Nuclear Siberia — XXI Century" will last for three days. At the conclusion of its work the goals and objectives will be set; they will be discussed on the international energy congress, which will be held in summer in Krasnoyarsk. And the coming decades will be developed already on the new principles of nuclear power.