LOCATION: Podolsk, Moscow Oblast
Address:  21 ulitsa Ordzhonikidze, Podolsk, Moscow Oblast 142103
Telephone:  (095) 137-9783
[Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 1995), p. 117.] {Entered 10/19/99 MLB}
Director and Chief Designer: Yu. G. Dargunov
[Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 2000), p. 138.]{updated 01/03/01DK}
ACTIVITIES:
OKB Gidropress is involved in research and design of VVER reactors, reactor components, and safety and control systems. Gidropress also designed steam generators for BN fast reactors.
[Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 2000), p. 138.]{updated 01/03/01DK}
 
CRITICAL/SUBCRITICAL ASSEMBLIES:
NAME: Low Pressure Seven-Assembly Hydrodynamic Test Facility
APPLICATION:  
This test facility is designed to conduct hydrodynamic and vibration studies of VVER-1000 reactor fuel assemblies. 
 
NAME: High-Pressure Seven-Assembly Hydrodynamic Test Facility
APPLICATION:
This facility is designed to test experimental and standard fuel assemblies and is also used for cooperative tests, including tests of safety systems with standard parameters.
 
NAME: VVER-440 Hot Test Facility
APPLICATION:  
This facility is designed to test experimental and standard drives of safety systems.  This facility also tests VVER-440 fuel assemblies.
 
NAME: VVER-1000 Hot Test Facility
APPLICATION: 
This facility is designed to test experimental and standard drives of safety systems.  This facility tests VVER-1000 and VVER-500 fuel assemblies.
 
NAME: Critical Heat Flow Test Facility
APPLICATION:  
This facility is designed to study heat exchange in VVER reactors.
[Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 2000), pp. 138-139.] {entered 11/17/00 DK}

Last updated 8 July 2004 

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