LOCATION: Moscow
Address: 40 ulitsa Shchukinskaya, Moscow 123182
["Spisok prinyatykh sokrashcheniy i adresa organizatsiy," Russian Foundation for Basic Research Web Site, http://intra.rfbr.ru/kon/inter/proek98/spis.htm.]{entered 4/26/2001 DK}
Telephone: (095) 1905131
Fax: (095) 1938060
["Research Testing Center for Radiation Safety of Space Objects," International Science and Technology Center Web Site, http://www.istc.ru/istc/db/inst.nsf/wu/1207.]{entered 11/6/2001 DK}
SUBORDINATION: Ministry of Health
[Government Resolution No. 630 of 27 June 1995, O poryadke predostavleniya otsrochki ot prizyva na voyennuyu sluzhbu otdelnym kategoriyam grazhdan (as amended by Government Resolution No. 249 of 6 March  1996), State Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications Web Site, http://www.informika.ru/windows/goscom/normdoc/
r06/06207.html.] {entered 11/6/2001 DK}
ADMINISTRATION:
Director: Ye. Ye. Kovalev
["Research Testing Center for Radiation Safety of Space Objects," International Science and Technology Center Web Site, http://www.istc.ru/istc/db/people.nsf/wu/86 ]{entered 11/6/2001 DK}
BACKGROUND:
Before 1989 the Research Testing Center for Radiation Safety of Space Objects was a part of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems. 
["Osipyants Igor Andreevich," Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety (IBRAE) Web Site, http://www.ibrae.ac.ru/russian/osip_rus.html.]{entered 11/6/2001 DK}
ACTIVITIES:
The Research Testing Center for Radiation Safety of Space Objects conducts activities in the following areas: environmental monitoring, modeling and risk assessment; radiobiology; particle, field, and accelerator physics; and materials synthesis and processing.[1]  The center has developed a piece of medical equipment, called Ritm-MET, which is used to monitor the health of nuclear industry workers.[2] The Ritm-MET uses space medicine technology.[3]
Sources:
[1]"Research Testing Center for Radiation Safety of Space Objects," International Science and Technology Center Web Site, http://www.istc.ru/istc/db/inst.nsf/wu/1207.
[2]"Nauka i promyshlennost - meditsine," Creative Information and Publishing Center Web Site, http://www.tiic.ru/papers/oktfield/archive/2001/n19/01/ 
[3]"Nauka i promyshlennost Severo-Zapadnogo administrativnogo okruga - meditsine," Northwest Moscow Administrative Okrug Business Information Portal, http://www.vmc.expo.ru/main/VMC/catalogs/med01.htm. {entered 11/6/2001 DK}
REACTORS: one
NAME: SVV
[I.K. Komarev, ed., Vozrozhdeniye Volgi - shag k spaseniyu Rossii, Book 6, Part 2, Chapter 6, Dukhovnoye naslediye Web Site, http://www.nasledie.ru/bibliot/kniga6/gl6.htm.]{entered 11/6/2001 DK}
POWER: 500kW
[I.K. Komarev, ed., Vozrozhdeniye Volgi - shag k spaseniyu Rossii, Book 6, Part 2, Chapter 6, Dukhovnoye naslediye Web Site, http://www.nasledie.ru/bibliot/kniga6/gl6.htm.]{entered 11/6/2001 DK}

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