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LOCATION: St. Petersburg
Address: 44 Moskovskoye shosse, St. Petersburg 196158
Telephone: 812-127-9647 and 812-127-9348
Fax: 812-127-9632 and 812-127-9594
E-mail: ksri@pop3.rcom.ru
["Contact Page," Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute Web Site, http://www.ksri.ru/eng/cont/1.html.] {Entered 9/10/2001 EF}
HOMEPAGE: http://www.ksri.ru 
ADMINISTRATION:
Director: Valentin Mikhaylovich Pashin
[Valentin Pashin, "Scientific Support for the Creation of Up-to-Date, Highly Reliable Surface Ships and Submarines," Military Parade, online edition, http://www.milparade.ru/17/49-50.htm, September-October 1996.]
 
REACTORS: One
NAME: U-3
TYPE: pool
POWER: 0.5MW
FUEL: 90% HEU
OPERATOR: Ministry of the Economy
COMMENTS:
This reactor was commissioned in 1968. The All-Russian Scientific Research and Design Institute of Complex Energy Technology (VNIPIET) designed the reactor.
[List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.]
CRITICAL ASSEMBLIES: Two
NAME: G-1
NAME: MER
[List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.]
 
SUBCRITICAL ASSEMBLIES: One
[NISNP Correspondence with Russian Nuclear Scientist, 11 October 1999, RUS991011.] {Entered 10/12/99 TR}
 
MPC&A:
This site participates in the US Department of Energy MPCA program.
ACTIVITIES:
Located on approximately 80 hectares, seven divisions comprise the Krylov Central Scientific Research Institute, including the Nuclear Power Plant Division, which has participated in all activities associated with naval nuclear propulsion.[1] It has tested nuclear reactors for surface ships and submarines and guarantees the safety of vessels powered by nuclear reactors.[2] The institute has signed an agreement to sponsor the Bars [NATO name 'Akula II'] class nuclear submarine Gepard. The institute will give technical assistance and provide social benefits to the submarine's crew.[3] The institute is also participating in a bid to build underground nuclear plants in Primorskiy Kray and  Murmansk Oblast. The proposed nuclear plants, with a projected capacity of up to 300MW, are based on nuclear submarine technologies. The cost of such power plants is estimated at $300 million each.[4]
Sources:
[1] M. Lee, "Appendix B: Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute," Research Submersibles and Undersea Technologies, World Technology Center Panel Report, June 1994, http://itri.loyola.edu/subsea/b_krylov.htm.
[2] Valentin Pashin, "Scientific Support for the Creation of Up-to-date, Highly Reliable Surface Ships and Submarines," Military Parade, online edition, http://www.milparade.ru/17/49-50.htm, September-October 1996.
[3] Sergey Ivanov, "Kto vladeyet morem, tot vladeyet vsem," Krasnaya zvezda, No. 151, 15 August 2000, p. 2.
[4] Nikolay Krupenik, "Proyekt podzemnoy AES dlya energodefitsitnykh regionov Rossii razrabotali peterburgskiye spetsialisty," ITAR-TASS, 17 February 2001; in Integrum Techno, http://www.integrum.ru. {Updated 6/27/2001 EF}
 
KRYLOV DEVELOPMENTS:
 
8/30/96: UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PROPOSED
The Krylov Central Scientific Research Center in St. Petersburg is working on a design for an underground nuclear power and heat plant, to be built near Snezhnogorsk, in the Murmansk region. According to the design, the plant will have four reactors with a combined capacity of 300 MW and will generate heat for residents of nearby towns. The plant's reactors will be modified versions of reactors found on nuclear-powered ships. Such reactors are manufactured at the Izhorsk factory in St. Petersburg.
["Podzemnaya atomnaya," PRAVDA PYAT', 8/30/96-9/6/96, p. 6; "Viktor Mikhailov, Russian Minister of Atomic Industry: 'The Future of the Transpolar Power Industry Is Nuclear'," RABOCHAYA TRIBUNA, 7/26/96, p. 5, in FBIS-TEN-96-008, "Russia: Ships' Power Plants for Use in Small Nuclear Power Stations," 7/26/96.]

Page last updated 27 August 2001

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