Russia: Naval Reactors: Technology: Krylov Central Research InstituteRussia: Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute (Krylov Central Scientific Research Institute - TsNII)
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, www.ksri.ru/eng/cont/1.html.] {Entered 9/10/2001 EF} HOMEPAGE: 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, www.milparade.ru/17/49-50.htm, September-October 1996.]
REACTORS: One
NAME: U-3
TYPE: pool
POWER: 0.5MW
FUEL: 10% LEU
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. [V.P. Struyev, S.I. Kosmin, I.T. Guriyev, "Changing the status of the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute to an LEU Facility by removing HEU from the site," unpublished paper presented at INMM Conference]
CRITICAL ASSEMBLIES:Two
NAME: G-1
NAME: MER
The critical assemblies have now been shut-down following a decision that there was no longer any need for continuing with the experimental studies that required their use. Both assemblies were previously using HEU fuel. [V.P. Struyev, S.I. Kosmin, I.T. Guriyev, "Changing the status of the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute to an LEU Facility by removing HEU from the site," unpublished paper presented at INMM Conference]
SUBCRITICAL ASSEMBLIES: One
[NISNP Correspondence with Russian Nuclear Scientist, 11 October 1999, RUS991011.] {Entered 10/12/99 TR} COMMENTS:
The sub critical assembly has now been shut-down following a decision that there was no longer any need for continuing with the experimental studies that required its use.
[V.P. Struyev, S.I. Kosmin, I.T. Guriyev, "Changing the status of the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute to an LEU Facility by removing HEU from the site," unpublished paper presented at INMM Conference]
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] As well as guaranteeing the safety of the crew, Krylov's research also considers the potential ecological effects of naval nuclear propulsion.
Sources:
[1] M. Lee, "Appendix B: Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute," Research Submersibles and Undersea Technologies, World Technology Center Panel Report, June 1994, 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, www.milparade.ru/17/49-50.htm, September-October 1996.
KRYLOV DEVELOPMENTS: 7/10/2006: KRYLOV INSTITUTE REMOVES HEU FUEL The United States Department of Energy (DoE), as part of the Material Consolidation and Conversion Program, announced the completion of a two year cooperative effort to remove HEU from the Krylov Shipbuilding Institute. The Institute's U-3 reactor will now operate on 10% LEU, while it's two critical and one sub critical assemblies have been shut down. The DoE paid for the HEU to be transported for downblending at Dimitrovgrad.
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.]
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