LOCATION: Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Kray
SUBORDINATION: Norilsk Nickel Joint Stock Company
["IAEA Research Reactors Database," IAEA Web Site, http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/rrdb/.]{updated 1/3/01 DK}
MPC&A:
Physical protection training completed. MC&A training completed. No upgrades planned for LEU fuel storage.[1]
This facility was found to not have significant quantities of weapons grade material and was therefore dropped from the DOE MPC&A program. No equipment was provided.[2]
Sources:
[1] Department of Energy, Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Partnership for Nuclear Material Security. Washington, D.C. January 1997.
[2] CNS interview with DOE official, July 1997. {Entered 1/6/98 PBI}
REACTORS:  One
NAME: RG-1M
TYPE: pool
POWER: 0.1MW
FUEL: 3.6kg, 90% enriched
COMMENTS:
This reactor was commissioned in 1970 and underwent reconstruction in 1975. 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] In June 1998 the reactor was shut down and the reactor core containing 71 fuel assemblies was placed in an on-site storage pool. In September 1999, the spent fuel was shipped to the Mayak reprocessing plant.[2]
Sources:
[1] List of Research Reactors, Critical and Subcritical Assemblies Supervised by Gosatomnadzor, 7/13/92.
[2] Igor Kudrik, "Norilsk reactor put out of use," Bellona Foundation Web Site, http://www.bellona.no/imaker?id=8690&sub=1.{updated 10/6/00 DK}  

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