R&D. Tashkent hosted the third meeting of the Advisory Board of the MBIR International Research Center. The meeting brought together representatives from research institutions, industrial companies, universities, and international organizations to discuss the development of research infrastructure, advanced nuclear energy technologies, and personnel training. “Nuclear science and nuclear power have always served as catalysts for progress across a multitude of other disciplines, and the broad geographic representation at today’s meeting — spanning Korea, India, the CIS, Brazil, and African nations — is direct proof of this,” said Stepan Kalmykov, Chairman of the MBIR Advisory Board and Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The MBIR is a 150 MW multipurpose fast-neutron research reactor currently under construction in Dimitrovgrad, Russia. It is designed to test materials, equipment, and next-generation nuclear technologies, as well as to produce radioisotopes. The International Research Center, which will operate the reactor, is structured as a consortium, granting its members priority access to experimental capacities for their national nuclear programs. The consortium remains open to new partners.