LOCATION: Turayevo, Lytkarino-1, Moscow Oblast
Address:  Turayevo, Lytkarino-1, Moscow Oblast 140061
Telephone: (095) 552-39-11
Fax: (095) 552-39-39
[Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 2000), p. 135]{updated 02/05/01 DK}   
ADMINISTRATION:
Director: Viktor I. Rogov
[Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 2000), p. 135]{updated 02/05/01 DK}
BACKGROUND:
NIIP was created in 1972 by decree of the Soviet Ministry of Medium Machine-Building (the predecessor of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy).
["Lytkarino:  Nauchnyye instituty i organizatsii," http://istina.inion.ru/lytkarin.htm.] {Entered 4/14/99 LBN}
ACTIVITIES:
NIIP is the leading Russian facility dealing with radioelectronic instruments used in radioactive environments, radiation testing of electronic components and materials for nuclear power plants and reactors, and dosimetry of ionizing radiation at various nuclear installations.  NIIP develops and tests instruments and electronic equipment, creates physical and mathematical models to determine the effects of varying types of radiation exposure on equipment, creates automated instruments for taking measurements during radiation research, conducts surveys of ionizing radiation fields at nuclear installations, sterilizes medical equipment and medicines, and creates improved polymer materials.
["Lytkarino:  Nauchnyye instituty i organizatsii," http://istina.inion.ru/lytkarin.htm.] {Entered 4/14/99 LBN}
STRUCTURE:
NIIP is a state-owned company subordinate to the Ministry of Atomic Energy, but it is financially self-sufficient.
["Lytkarino:  Nauchnyye instituty i organizatsii," http://istina.inion.ru/lytkarin.htm.] {Entered 4/14/99 LBN}
FISSILE MATERIAL:
More than 1000kg of HEU; much of it is 90% enriched.
[NISNP Interview with US Department of Energy Officials, April 1999, RUS990401.]{updated 02/05/01 DK}
MPC&A:
NIIP participates in the US Department of Energy MPCA program.  Comprehensive upgrades are to be completed by the end of 2002.
[US Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, MPC&A Program Strategic Plan (Washington, D.C.,  July 2001),  Appendix B.] {Entered 3/13/2002 KB}
REACTORS: Five (non-operational)
[NISNP Interview with US Department of Energy Officials, April 1999, RUS990401.] {Entered 4/14/99 LBN}
NAME: TIBR-1M
TYPE: pulsed
FUEL: 3.6kg, 90 percent enriched uranium
COMMENTS:
This reactor was commissioned in 1976.  The State Specialized Design Institute designed the reactor. The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) was the chief constructor of the reactor.[1]  This reactor is no longer operational.[2]
Sources:
[1] List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.
[2] NISNP Interview with US Department of Energy Officials, April 1999, RUS990401.{Entered 4/14/99 LBN}
 
NAME: BARS-2
TYPE: pulsed
FUEL: 3.6 kg, 90% enriched
COMMENTS:
This reactor was commissioned in 1971. The State Specialized Design Institute designed the reactor. The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF)  was the chief constructor of the reactor.[1] This reactor is no longer operational.[2]
Sources:
[1] List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.
[2] NISNP Interview with US Department of Energy Officials, April 1999, RUS990401. {Entered 4/14/99 LBN}
 
NAME: BARS-3M
TYPE: pulsed
FUEL: 3.6 kg, 90% enriched
COMMENTS:
This reactor was commissioned in 1988. The State Specialized Design Institute designed the reactor. The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) was the chief constructor of the reactor.[1] This reactor is no longer operational.[2]
Sources:
[1] List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.
[2] NISNP Interview with US Department of Energy Officials, April 1999, RUS990401. {Entered 4/14/99 LBN}
 
NAME: BARS-4
TYPE: pulsed
FUEL: 3.6 kg, 90% enriched
COMMENTS:
This reactor was commissioned in 1984. The State Specialized Design Institute designed the reactor. The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) was the chief constructor of the reactor.[1] This reactor is no longer operational.[2]
Sources:
[1] List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.
[2] NISNP Interview with US Department of Energy Officials, April 1999, RUS990401. {Entered 4/14/99 LBN}
 
NAME: IRV
TYPE: pulsed
POWER: 2MW
COMMENTS:
This reactor was commissioned in 1974. The State Specialized Design Institute designed the reactor. The All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) was the chief constructor of the reactor.[1] This reactor is no longer operational.[2]
Sources:
[1] List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.
[2] NISNP Interview with US Department of Energy Officials, April 1999, RUS990401. {Entered 4/14/99 LBN}
 

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