LOCATION: Tomsk
Address: 2a prospekt Lenina, Tomsk 634050
Telephone: (3822) 42 39 80
Fax: (3822) 42 39 34
[NIIYaF Web Site, http://www.npi.tpu.ru.]{entered 10/18/00 DK}
HOMEPAGE: http://www.npi.tpu.ru/
SUBORDINATION:  Ministry of Education
[NISNP Correspondence with Russian Nuclear Scientist, 11 October 1999, RUS991011.]{updated 10/13/99 FW}
ADMINISTRATION:
Director: Aleksandr Ilich Ryabchikov
Deputy Director of Science: Vladimir Mikhaylovich Golovkov
Deputy Director of Operations: Nikolay Alekseyevich Timchenko
Chief Engineer: Avgust Prokopevich Polkovnikov
Scientific Secretary: Vladimir Konstantinovich Kononov
["Direktsiya Instituta," NIIYaF Web Site, http://www.npi.tpu.ru/ind/proj/struct/r_fram_indx.html.] {entered 10/18/00 DK}
ACTIVITIES:
NIIYaF was founded in 1958 for research and training in nuclear physics, accelerator technologies, and electronics.[1] The Institute's installations for conducting fundamental and applied research include a synchrotron (Russia's largest), a cyclotron, and a complex of electron and ion accelerators. The IRT-T training and research nuclear reactor, commissioned in 1967 and reconstructed in 1984, is used for training personnel, material testing, and research.[1,2]
Sources:
[1] "Kratkaya istoricheskaya spravka," NIIYaF Web Site, http://www.npi.tpu.ru.
[2] "Issledovatelskiy yadernyy reaktor IRT-T," NIIYaF Web Site, http://www.npi.tpu.ru. {Entered 3/28/03 NL}
FISSILE MATERIAL: This site has "kilogram quantities" of HEU.[1,2,3]
Sources: 
[1]William J. Toth and Yuri P. Usov, "Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting at the Tomsk Polytechnic University IRT-T Research Reactor," Partnership for Nuclear Security: United States/ Former Soviet Union Program of Cooperation on Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting, (US Department of Energy, December 1997).
[2] Office of Nonproliferation and National Security, MPC&A Strategic Plan, (US Department of Energy, January 1998), p. 17.
[3] "IAEA Research Reactors Database," IAEA Web Site, http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/rrdb/.{entered 1/10/01 DK}
MPC&A:
MPC&A upgrades were completed at three NIIYaF buildings in July 1998 under the US Department of Energy's MPC&A program.[1]  The primary focus of the upgrades was the protection of fresh, highly enriched fuel located inside the reactor building, which is located 20km from Tomsk.  At the reactor building, alarms and sensors were installed; access control, access delay, and badging systems were implemented; a central alarm station was constructed; assay devices and scales were supplied; and training in basic physical protection and nondestructive assay techniques was provided. Waste stored outside the reactor building and spent fuel within the reactor building did not fall within the scope of the MPC&A upgrades.[2] 
Sources:
[1] US General Accounting Office, Nuclear Nonproliferation:  Security of Russia's Nuclear Material Improving; Further Enhancements Needed, GAO-01-312 (Washington, DC:  February 2001), GAO Web Site, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01312.pdf.
[2] William J. Toth and Yuri P. Usov, "Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting at the Tomsk Polytechnic University IRT-T Research Reactor," Partnership for Nuclear Security: United States/ Former Soviet Union Program of Cooperation on Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting, (US Department of Energy, December 1997).{Updated 5/1/2001 KB}
 
For a description of the MPC&A work that was 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.
 
REACTORS: One
NAME: IRT-T
[William J. Toth and Yuri P. Usov, "Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting at the Tomsk Polytechnic University IRT-T Research Reactor," Partnership for Nuclear Security: United States/ Former Soviet Union Program of Cooperation on Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting, (US Department of Energy, December 1997).]{Updated 1/8/2001 DK}
TYPE: tank
[List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.]
POWER: 6MW
[List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.]
FUEL: The core loading of this reactor is 3.50-5.2kg of 90% HEU.
["IAEA Research Reactors Database," IAEA Web Site, http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/rrdb/.]{updated 01/08/01 DK}
OPERATOR: Ministry of Science, Tomsk Polytechnic University
[Correspondence with Russian Nuclear Industry, 1995.]
COMMENTS:
The IRT-T research reactor is located 20km from Tomsk on the road to Seversk.[1] This reactor was commissioned in 1967 and underwent reconstruction in 1984. The State Specialized Design Institute designed the reactor.[2] NIIYaF operates under the auspices of the Tomsk Polytechnic University.[3]
Sources:  
[1] William J. Toth and Yuri P. Usov, "Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting at the Tomsk Polytechnic University IRT-T Research Reactor," Partnership for Nuclear Security: United States/ Former Soviet Union Program of Cooperation on Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting, (US Department of Energy, December 1997).{Entered 5/1/2001 KB}
[2] List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.
[3] Correspondence with Russian Nuclear Industry, 1995.

ARCHIVED NIIYaF DEVELOPMENTS (For more recent developments, see the Research Facilities Developments file):

5/2000: NIIYaF PROPOSES CREATION OF SIBERIAN CENTER FOR MPC&A TRAINING
At a May 2000 MPC&A Conference in Obninsk, NIIYaF officials presented a proposal to establish the Siberian Methodological and Training Center (SMTC) for training in control and accounting of nuclear materials and physical protection of facilities that represent a nuclear hazard. The goal of the proposed Center would be to provide practical MPC&A training for personnel of Minatom enterprises, Gosatomnadzor, and other related organizations located in the Asian part of Russia; provide MPC&A training for students with physics and technology majors at the Tomsk Polytechnic University; and coordinate research on strengthening MPC&A systems and procedures. The proposed Center would be created at the MPC&A complex of the IRT-T reactor and NIIYaF research facilities.
[A. Ryabchikov, V. Varlachev, Yu. Usov, IRT-T training and research reactor at TPU - primary center in Siberia for training and re-training personnel in MPC&A (Paper presented at MPC&A Conference, Obninsk, Russia: 22-26 May 2000.) {Entered 6/30/2003 NL}
 

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