Nuclear science and technology, agriculture (1985)

Panorama of the birch forest in early spring.

Types of spring forest.

Seeds germinating in the soil, the seeds on the left germinate faster (slow motion).

Employees of the Leningrad Agrochemical Institute at work, the faces of scientists.

One of the scientists calculates the modes of exposure to radio radiation for each culture.

Vegetable seeds during loading into a special container.

Type of container with seeds.

Placing a container with seeds in a gamma installation.

A container under a protective layer of water, surrounded by gamma radiation sources.

The installation operator is at the control panel.

The rays penetrate plant cells and stimulate vital processes (animation).

Increasing seed germination (animation).

Panorama of a beet field in one of the state farms of the Leningrad region.

View of a part of a cornfield.

Harvesting corn.

Weeding and fertilizing carrot crops.

Panorama of a part of the pig-feeding complex.

Scheme of an experimental radiation complex for disinfection of pig waste.

Equipment for feeding livestock effluents to an electron accelerator.

Type of electron accelerator.

Cleaning of waste from pathogenic microbes, fungal spores and weed seeds under an electron beam of a certain intensity.

Conducting microbiological studies of samples that have been and have not been irradiated.

Comparison of irradiated and irradiated samples.

The process of radiation treatment of organic effluents.

Cultivation of crops.

The root of a legume plant with nodules containing nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria under the microscope.

Equipment for breeding nitrogen-fixing bacteria in artificial conditions on a sterile environment.

Laying peat for radiation treatment.

Operation of equipment for radiation treatment of peat.

The effect of radiation on the structure of peat with the emergence of new nutrients (animation).

Panorama of a part of a field of legumes.

Harvesting of legumes.

Determination of the soil fertility level by neutron activation analysis in laboratory conditions.

Composite blocks of a physical installation.

The plasma torch of the physical installation.

Plasma torch nodes.

Installation of a soil sample in the receiver.

Sending a sample to the irradiation chamber using a pneumatic transport.

Operation of physical installation nodes.

Employees of the computing center during the decoding of the radiation spectrum.

Diagram on the monitor screen.

Printout of the received data on the composition of the soil.

Panorama of the cabbage field.

Pests on cabbage leaf, on stems and leaves of vegetable shoots.

Useful insects are entomophages on stems and leaves.

Conducting experiments on irradiation of cabbage fly larvae at the All-Union Research Institute for Plant Protection.

Placing a container with larvae in a special chamber.

The work of the irradiation chamber "Geneticist-1".

The process of removing sterile infertile cabbage fly individuals from irradiated larvae (animation).

Panorama of a wheat field.

Seagulls fly over the water.

Cargo ship at the berth, loading grain into the holds.

Carrying out sanitary control of grain at the radiation elevator of the Odessa port.

Barn pests eat out the inside of the grain.

Panorama of the elevator part.

Operators at the control panel during the radiation treatment of grain at the elevator.

Equipment for radiation treatment.

The process of radiation treatment of grain.

Destruction of pests under the influence of nuclear radiation (animation).

Interior view of a part of the incubator station, transportation of eggs in trays.

An employee of the station takes readings of control devices.

Trays with eggs under the influence of radiation in a radiation ionizing installation.

The effect of ionized air on the embryo in the egg (animation).

Hatched chickens in cages.

Chickens in the tray.

Cows in the pasture.

Cow's head.

The zooengineer uses a radionuclide device to determine the degree of mineralization of the cow's skeleton.

Entrance to the laboratory of isotope research methods.

Conducting research to detect the early stages of metabolism using a centrifuge.

Test tubes with red blood beads separated from plasma.

Addition of labeled atoms to the plasma.

Drawing up a picture of metabolic processes in the body using a gamma counter.

Printout of the received data.

The transformation of straw into sugary feed with the help of atomic technology.

The scientist checks the operation of the equipment for the creation of new hybrids and plant varieties.

View of the experimental gamma field of the All-Union Research Institute of Plant Growing.

Preparation for the next experiment.

The staff of the Research Institute arrange the plants in a certain order at the radiating tower.

Scientists are leaving the danger zone.

Devices for monitoring the progress of the experiment.

The effect of gamma radiation on the hereditary apparatus of plants (animation).

A sample of irradiated grain crops.

Breeders conduct scientific research and selection of the best samples for breeding.

A type of experimental bed of a newly created forage crop - an alkaloid-free lupine.

An employee of the Research Institute examines samples of bred dwarf citrus fruits.

Panorama of the tea plantation.

A scientist examines the created samples of tea radio mutants.

Types of radiomutant plants.

Panorama of the experimental field with radio mutant plants.

Samples of tea radiomutants selected for tasting.

The face of a scientist.

Tasting of tea from radio mutants.

View of the experimental field of buckwheat, derived using radio radiation.

Views and panorama of the experimental plot on which the wheat of the Novosibirsk-67 variety grows.