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Russia I: Nuclear Facility Starts to Train Former Weapons Scientists Russia’s largest nuclear research facility opened a new training center Saturday to help former Soviet nuclear weapons scientists learn software programming, according to the Moscow Times (see GSN, Jan. 9). Moscow’s Kurchatov Institute plans to retrain about 500 former weapons scientists to work in the information technology industry, the Times reported. Optima Program — an IT company created by the institute, Kurchatovsky Tekhnopark, the Optima systems integrator and the U.S. -based CTG Software Inc. — will hire program graduates. “What we are looking for is transition from exporting brains to exporting products and services,” Kurchatov Institute President Yevgeny Velikhov said. The Russian software company Luxoft has used the institute to retrain former weapons scientists through the U.S. Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program since November 2001, the Times reported (see GSN, Oct. 5, 2001). The United States is providing more than $22 million for the program this year, with funding going to more than 80 projects in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine (Larisa Naumenko, Moscow Times, Jan. 13).
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