NITI Activities Structure Critical Assemblies

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SUBORDINATION:  Ministry of Atomic Energy
ADMINISTRATION:
Director: Vyacheslav Andreyevich Vasilenko
Chief Engineer: Vladimir Petrovich Zhuravlev
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ACTIVITIES:
NITI is involved in designing and testing nuclear power and propulsion reactors and their systems and parts.  NITI also develops and produces simulators and modeling systems for training reactor operators, automatic control systems for industrial applications, automatic radiation monitoring systems, and spent fuel-handling technology.[1] NITI is participating in the project to design and build the NP-500 reactor, a version of the VVER-640 that has advanced safety features.[2,3] Other organizations involved in the NP-500 project include Minatom, Rosenergoatom, Atomenergoproyekt, VNIIA, OKB Gidropress, IPPE,  SRIAR, Siemens, and the Bavarian Society for the Safety of Nuclear reactors.[3,4]  The NP-500 is scheduled to be built at the Northwest Scientific-Industrial Center for Atomic Energy, co-located with NITI, by 2003.[4]
Sources:
[1] "Vidy deyatelnosti," NITI Website, http://www.sbor.spb.su/~niti/win/main.html.
[2] "Svyazy NITI," NITI Website, http://www.sbor.spb.su/~niti/win/links.html.
[3] "Nuclear Energy in the Russian Federation," NEI Source Book (Fourth Edition) online edition, http://www.insc.anl.gov/neisb/neisb4/NEISB_3.2.html.
[4] Yevgenia Borisova, "Siemens Introduces Reactor Technology," St. Petersburg Times online edition, http://www.sptimes.ru/ , 26 March 1998. {Entered 4/27/99 LBN}
STRUCTURE: NITI is classified as a state enterprise, and is subordinate to the Ministry of Atomic Energy.
["Firmennoye dosye," NITI Website, http://www.sbor.spb.su/~niti/win/dosie.html.] {Entered 4/27/99 LBN}

CRITICAL ASSEMBLIES: 3
NAME: KM-1
TYPE: VVR
STATUS: According to a 1992 Gosatomnadzor document, this critical assembly has been mothballed.
COMMENTS:
Designed by VNIPIET (All-Russian Scientific Research and Design Institute for Power Engineering).
[List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.]
 
NAME: KV-1
TYPE: VVR
COMMENTS:
Designed by VNIPIET (All-Russian Scientific Research and Design Institute for Power Engineering).
[List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.]
 
NAME: KV-2
TYPE: VVR
STATUS: As of 1992, this critical assembly was under construction.
COMMENTS:
Designed by VNIPIET (All-Russian Scientific Research and Design Institute for Power Engineering).
[List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 13 July 1992.] {Entered 4/8/98 IY}

Last updated 8 July 2004 

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