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The results of investigations performed by specialists at Research and Design Institute of ElectricalTechnology together with other enterprises, institutes, and organizations concerning the formulation of a strategy for the development of nuclear power in Russia in the first half of the 21st century are presented. The individual stages of the work, key assumptions, ideas, and recommendations, on which the strategy is based, the initiatives which the President of the Russian Federation advanced at the millennium summit held at the United Nations, and the international INPRO project initiated by Russia are examined. It is concluded that innovative development and a transition to building as quickly as possible nuclear power objects that meet the requirements and demands of the new century are necessary.The energy component of nuclear technology began outside the framework of the plans developed for energy construction in the USSR. The first nuclear power plant in the world was built in response to the political problem of competing with the West for leadership in projects selected for this purpose. It did not open up either a technological line for energy construction, since it was not a step in the implementation of a government program. Ten years separated it from the next step -the commissioning of the first power generating units in 1964 at the Novovoronezh and Beloyarskaya nuclear power plants. The first domestic dual-purpose reactor ÉI-2 was built as part of a defense program, and its energy component was no more than an ancillary problem. Both reactors were built at Research and Design Institute of Electrical Technology under the leadership of N. A. Dollezhal. The efforts of I. V. Kurchatov, under whose initiative, by a decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the first power generating program was adopted back in 1956, turned out to be futile, and all projects were cut back even in 1959.The country returned to planning a nuclear power only in 1966, adopting one program after another, never completing any one of them. However, in the context of the present article it should be noted that all programs were based on an analysis of energy and economic needs. A discussion of the technological problems was the fate of sporadic scientific councils, which sometimes occurred primarily at the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy or the Physics and Power Engineering Institute. Public appearances by leaders of the industry did not remain unnoticed by the scientific community. An example is the report by A. P. Aleksandrov at the seventh world energy conference in Moscow [1] or the paper by N. A. Dollezhal and Yu. I. Koryakin in the journal "Kommunist" [2]. The former was the basis for active expansion of geological exploration for uranium, and the latter was the first to raise the question of the desirability of concentrating all ener-

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039ChemInform Abstract The novel solid compound RuOF3 is prepared by fluorination of RuO2 at 250-320 rc C. It is highly susceptible to hydrolysis, and is characterized by elemental analysis and by Raman spectroscopy. The kinetics of the fluorination of RuO2 are studied between 255-300 rc C. A possible mechanism of the RuOF3 formation is discussed.

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