Neutron scattering and reactions as indispensable tools for fundamental and applied investigations in KINR

摘要

The Kyiv Institute of Nuclear Research (KINR) has been carring out fundamental researches and measurements in neutron physics since many years. A century of extreme historical political modifications unfortunately lead to the cessation of direct researches "on beam" on installations of institute (reactor, tandem, two cyclotron). The most negative tendencies, as it seems to us that must overcome, are these of conceptual and intellectual detachment from the world scientific community and very dangerous rupture between older and new (a lack) generations of the contributors. It is possible to arrest these destructive tendencies from becoming irreversible. Ukraine as the new independent state entering the Council of Europe motivates us to actively participate in the scientific creative process. The purpose of the present manuscript is to inform members of the European Association after Neutron Scattering concerning the existence in Ukraine, in our institute, of old traditions of occupations in the field of neutron physics and to offer interaction and cooperation in joint researches.