LOCATION: Moscow
Address:  25 ulitsa B. Cheremushkinskaya, Moscow 117259
Fax: (095) 123-65-84
[ITEP webpage, http://www.itep.ru.] {Updated 6/8/00 FW}
HOMEPAGE:  http://www.itep.ru  {Updated 6/8/00 FW}
ADMINISTRATION:
Director: Mikhail V. Danilov
[Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 2000), p. 69.]{entered 02/01/01 DK}
Deputy Director: Oleg Shvedov
[Oleg Shvedov, "A Reactor Without Problems," Atompressa, September 1998, No. 33, p. 2; in "Electronuclear Reactor Discussed," FBIS-SOV-98-288.] {Entered LBB 2/25/99}
ACTIVITIES:
ITEP is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[1] The Institute studies low-, intermediate-, and high-energy physics; reactor physics and engineering; and particle accelerator physics and engineering. The Institute also investigates the practical applications of nuclear technology.[2]
Sources:
[1] Rossiyskaya gazeta, 10/28/94, p. 14; in "'Safe' Nuclear Waste Processing Developed," FBIS-SOV-94-213, 10/28/94.
[2] Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 1995), p. 57.
FISSILE MATERIAL: Less than 1000kg of HEU
[US Department of Energy, Office of Nonproliferation and National Security, MPC&A Program Strategic Plan, January 1998, (Washington, DC, January 1998), p.17.]{entered 02/01/01 DK}
MPC&A:
This site participates in the US Department of Energy MPCA program.  A site survey was conducted by DOE officials in 1996. Specialists are upgrading MPC&A at the central storage facility and at the critical assembly building. Hardware and software for computerized material accounting system, tamper indicating devices, a fresh fuel measurement system and protective forces communications equipment were to be delivered in early 1997. Training was to be provided in physical protection, MC&A, non-destructive assay techniques and tamper indicating devices in early 1997.
[US Department of Energy, Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Partnership for Nuclear Material Security (Washington, D.C.,  1997),  p. 18.]{Entered 1/6/98 PBI}
 
For a description of the MPC&A work being performed at this site please see the Department of Energy's December 1997 document, United States/ Former Soviet Union Program of Cooperation on Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting: Partnership for Nuclear Security and the Department of Energy's September 1998 document, United States/ Former Soviet Union Program of Cooperation on Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting: Partnership for Nuclear Security.
REACTORS: One
NAME: TVR
TYPE: heavy water, channel type
FUEL: 80% HEU
["IAEA Research Reactors Database," IAEA Web Site, http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/rrdb/.]{updated 01/02/01 DK}
POWER: 2.5MWe
OPERATOR: Minatom
[Correspondence with Russian Nuclear Industry, 1995.]
COMMENTS:
This research reactor was commissioned in 1949 and shut down in 1986.[1,2] The State Specialized Design Institute designed the reactor.[1] 
Sources:
[1] List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.
[2] International Science and Technology Center, "Project # 245 Radleg", Kurchatov Institute Web Site, http://www.kiae.ru/radleg/ch6e.htm.{entered 02/01/01 DK}
 
CRITICAL ASSEMBLIES: One
NAME: Maket
TYPE: Heavy-water
[List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992]
POWER: 1000W
FUEL: Uranium
APPLICATION:
Critical experiments. Research on neutron behavior in heavy water moderated and cooled reactor cores.
[International Science and Technology Center, "Project # 245 Radleg", Kurchatov Institute Web Site, http://www.kiae.ru/radleg/ch6e.htm.]{entered 11/13/00 DK}.
 

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