YEREVAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

LOCATION: Yerevan
OPERATOR: Armenian Academy of Sciences
HOME PAGE: http://www.yerphi.am
ACTIVITIES:
Founded in 1943, the Institute claims to have about 1400 employees, including 400 researchers and 550 engineers and technicians.  The Institute has a 6GeV electron synchrotron, but most activities at the Institute have been suspended.
Sources:
[1] Alexander Yemelyanenov and Vladimir Popov, eds., Atom bez grifa "sekretno": tochki zreniya, (Berlin: H & P Druck, 1992), p. 34.
[2] T. Sabonis-Chafee, Preliminary Report on Armenia, Center for Nonproliferation Studies report, 10 May 1996.
[3] "General Information YerPhI," http://www.yerphi.am/gen/html.{Entered 8/15/96 KVY, updated 2/12/97 djw}

ANALITSARK PLANT

LOCATION: Gyumri
DIRECTOR: Zhora Avetisyan
ACTIVITIES:
Analytical and testing devices for nuclear power plants. Clients include the Leningrad NPP and Severodvinsk in Russia, and facilities in the Baltic States, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, China, Greece and Turkey.
[Post-Soviet Nuclear and Defense Monitor, 25 April 1995, p. 12.]

Page last updated 12 February 1997

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