Cuba

The Republic of Cuba has been a Member State of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research since 1976. Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart worked at JINR under the name José Raúl Fernández from 1972 to 1978, and he participated in the session of the JINR Committee of Plenipotentiaries in 2013. Elias Entralgo, a Cuban scientist and professor, was a Vice-Director of JINR from 1983 to 1989. In the early 1990s, a large delegation of DLNP and FLNR specialists was sent to Cuba, whose government planned to create its own cyclotron centre (unfortunately, this project was not implemented).

Nowadays cooperation between Cuba and JINR is successfully expanding in different directions. Thus Cuban scientists participate in several research programmes of JINR including the upgrade of the electron linear accelerator LINAC-800. Also, within the joint Russian-Cuban project “High-resolution SPECT/CT method based on Medipix detectors”, investigations are underway at DLNP JINR to find a method for obtaining high-resolution X-ray and single-photon emission tomographic images of small animals.