Account for Infostan

Utilities

08.September 2024 MS

Infostan: The Vinča landfill has been added to the new accounts

On the invoices for Infostan from August 1, instead of the previous service "municipal waste disposal", the citizens of Belgrade pay "treatment and disposal of municipal waste at the Vinca sanitary landfill", which is calculated at a price of 5,92 dinars per square meter of the apartment.

Almost twice as much waste arrives in Vinč than the available capacity

Energy and environment

04.July 2024 Tijana Stanic

Energy production from waste: Almost twice as much garbage arrives in Vinč than it can burn

A few days ago, the production of energy from waste in the thermal power plant-heating plant Vinča officially started. However, the capacities of the incinerator are not large enough to wash away the amount of waste that annually arrives in Vinča, and the area of ​​the new landfill is filling up at an unplanned speed. Professor Aleksandar Jovović from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade explains to "Vreme" that the waste incineration system in Europe has been developed for many years, but that an important difference compared to Serbia is the primary separation process, which makes the system significantly more efficient

Roma in Serbia

01.July 2024 SZ

The Belgrade government does not care about the forcibly displaced Roma from Vinča

The Belgrade government continuously violates human rights and simply ignores the Roma families who were forcibly displaced from the informal settlement on the edge of the landfill in Vinča. Five years ago, with the support of Initiative A 11, they submitted a complaint to the Independent Mechanism for Project Responsibility of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which financed the landfill reconstruction project.

Felton: Alchemy of the Bomb (2/4)

30.August 2023 Slobodan Bubnjević

Between Stalin and radiation

Their names cause fear. It is not necessary to know the structure of the atomic nucleus or to understand the force of the chain reaction, it is enough for someone in the room to say one of those terrifying words - Hiroshima, Chernobyl, Fukushima - the evil spirits of nuclear physics will immediately emerge from the dark corners. The dramatic history of the nuclear era is described in the book Alchemy of the Bomb Slobodan Bubnjević through twenty such terrible toponyms, diverse locations on the planet where the use of atomic energy left permanent scars and grew into symbols of modern times. The weekly "Vreme" brings excerpts from chapter 13, dedicated to the origin and development of the Vinca nuclear institute, in four installments.

A cultural treasure

26.August 2023 Sonja Ciric

Are Neolithic remains disappearing in Vinci?

The association "Naša mesna zajednica" believes that Dubravka Đukanović, director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, is responsible for the destruction of Neolithic remains at the Belo Brdo archeological site in Vinča.

Felton: Alchemy of the Bomb (1/4)

25.August 2023 Slobodan Bubnjević

In the new issue: Tito's reactor

Their names cause fear. It is not necessary to know the structure of the atomic nucleus or to understand the force of the chain reaction, it is enough for someone in the room to say one of those terrifying words - Hiroshima, Chernobyl, Fukushima - the evil spirits of nuclear physics will immediately emerge from the dark corners. The dramatic history of the nuclear era is described in the book Alchemy of the Bomb by Slobodan Bubnjević through twenty such terrible toponyms, diverse locations on the planet where the use of atomic energy left permanent scars and grew into symbols of modern times. The weekly "Vreme" brings an excerpt from chapter 13, dedicated to the origin and development of the Vinca nuclear institute

Felton: Alchemy of the Bomb (1/4)

23.August 2023 Slobodan Bubnjević

Tito's reactor

Their names cause fear. It is not necessary to know the structure of the atomic nucleus or to understand the force of the chain reaction, it is enough for someone in the room to say one of those terrifying words - Hiroshima, Chernobyl, Fukushima - the evil spirits of nuclear physics will immediately emerge from the dark corners. The dramatic history of the nuclear era is described in the book Alchemy of the Bomb Slobodan Bubnjević through twenty such terrible toponyms, various locations on the planet where the use of atomic energy left permanent scars and grew into symbols of modern times. The weekly "Vreme" brings an excerpt from chapter 13, dedicated to the creation and development of the Vinca Nuclear Institute

Recommendation

22.August 2023 Sonja Ciric

The book based on which Bjela made a movie

In Goran Milašinović's novel "The Case of Vinča" there is one side character, called little radiation, who is just waiting for someone who will make her the master of the whole world's life

Politics

04.June 2023 Jelena Zoric

Proposal for a law on the management of business companies: Litigation, opela and sale of Serbia

The draft law on the management of business companies has arrived in the National Assembly. If that law is adopted, a group of powerful people will be able to manage Serbia's forests, mountains, waters, and nuclear facilities. After that, it is no longer important who is the government or who is the opposition in the country, only the leaders of Serbia will be asked about everything important, and that according to the law.

News

30.May 2022. Sonja Ciric

Accident in Vinci: A film about an event that was kept silent

Filming of the film "Chain Reaction" about the event at the Vinca Institute in which five of our scientists were irradiated in 1958 while, on the orders of Josip Broz, they were trying to build an atomic bomb is underway. Pavle Savić, then manager of the Institute, refused the order and was fired