An initiative under the "Peaceful atom-green planet" motto was held today at Science Complex 2 of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The event marked the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl NPP. The President of the National Assembly Nataliya Kiselova and the President of BAS Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva took part in the initiative organized by the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE) in cooperation with the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Institute of Electronics, the Central Laboratory of Solar Energy and New Energy Sources and the State Enterprise "Radioactive Waste". They participated in the planting of coniferous trees in the yard of the scientific complex as a symbol of safe nuclear energy. "There is nothing better than safe nuclear power. We must [...]

A team of scientists from the “Acad. Evgeni Budevski” Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems at BAS (IEES-BAS) headed by the President of BAS Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva, DSc, started the second of a series of training courses under the Green Skills for Hydrogen project. The start of the training sessions was given on 24 March with a welcome address by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nedelina Kostadinova, Secretary General of Trakia University, Stara Zagora. On behalf of the hosts and especially on behalf of the Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Dobri Yarkov, she congratulated the participants for their decision to join this key course on hydrogen energy and expressed her confidence that all present in the room were part or would be part of the [...]

Jubilee Scientific Session "From the Idea to the Industrial Product" Fifty years since the development of the copper bromide vapour laser by Acad. Nikola Sabotinov were celebrated at a scientific session at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Acad. Nikola Sabotinov's idea of creating a low-temperature copper laser in Bulgaria was realized in 1974 when under his leadership at the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) a copper bromide vapour laser was launched and recognized as the invention of the year in 1979. In order to improve its characteristics, a number of theoretical and experimental studies had been carried out, and the effect of hydrogen was discovered. Thus, the most powerful entirely Bulgarian gas laser generating in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum was created [...]

A delegation from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, led by the President Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of BAS, visited from 22 to 24 November the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva.  The delegation included Prof. Neli Koseva - Scientific Secretary-General of BAS, Assoc. Prof. Ivan Georgiev - Scientific Secretary of the “Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies” division of BAS and Prof. Dimitar Tonev - Director of the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy.  During the visit, the Bulgarian delegation met with the Director-General of the Organization, Professor Fabiola Gianotti, the Director for International Relations Charlotte Warakaulle, and the Head of Member State Relations Peter Chochula. Prospects for the involvement of scientists of BAS in future research in the fields of high [...]