LOCATION: Moscow, Russian Federation
Address: 52 Bolshaya Tulskaya Ulitsa, Moscow, 113191
Telephone: (095) 952 24 21
Fax: (095) 958 00 40
["Institut problem bezopasnogo razvitiya atomnoy energetiki;" "Direktsiya instituta," IBRAE Web Site, http://www.ibrae.ac.ru.]{entered 11/12/00 DK}
HOMEPAGE:  http://www.ibrae.ac.ru
ADMINISTRATION:
Director: Leonid Aleksandrovich Bolshov
Advisor of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Ashot Arakelovich Sarkisov
First Deputy Director: Rafael Varnazovich Arutyunyan
Deputy Director: Igor Innokentevich Linge
Deputy Director for Administrative and Economic Issues: Yevgeniy Vyacheslavovich Yevstratov
Deputy Director for Administrative Issues: Yuriy Ivanovich Medved
["Direktsiya instituta," IBRAE Web Site, http://www.ibrae.ac.ru./cgi/koi/ibrae/russian/struct.html.] {entered 11/12/00 DK}
ACTIVITIES:
Founded in 1988, IBRAE conducts safety analyses of nuclear power facilities and the fuel and energy complex. As of 1998, the Institute employed 340 people with backgrounds in theoretical and applied physics, nuclear power engineering, biophysics, radioecology, computational mathematics, and computer science.[1,2] Specifically, IBRAE conducts research on the safety of the energy complex (including the nuclear industry); operator support systems and improving operational safety for nuclear power plants; the impact of nuclear facilities on the environment and population; emergency response to radiation accidents; nuclear submarine decommissioning; and nuclear industry development and assessment of the efficiency of proposed nuclear power plant construction in Russia.[1]

The Institute has collaborated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to create software for nuclear reactor-related databases.  In cooperation with the Kurchatov Institute, IBRAE participated in a project, known as "RASPLAV," which focused on the study of fuel melt-reactor vessel interactions. The Institute also carried out a safety analysis of the RT-2 spent fuel storage facility under the European Commission's TACIS program.

IBRAE actively participates in US-Russian cooperation on nuclear safety. In this sphere, the Institute performs work under contracts from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. For a  number of years IBRAE has collaborated with the US Department of Energy within the framework of the International Nuclear Safety Program to improve the safety of Russian-designed nuclear power plants. It maintains contacts with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

IBRAE participates in the implementation of the French-German initiative on research of radiological consequences of the Chernobyl accident. It collaborates with the French nuclear research institute Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN). Among the Institute's partners in Germany are Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS), Germany's leading research organization on nuclear safety and nuclear waste management, and Forschungszentrums Karlsruhe (FZK), a research institution in the field of technology and the environment.[3]
[1] "General information," IBRAE Web Site, http://www.ibrae.ac.ru.
[2] Nuclear Safety Institute (Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 1998).
[3] "International Scientific Contacts and Joint Scientific Activities with Foreign Organizations," IBRAE Web Site, http://www.ibrae.ac.ru.{entered 10/23/02 NL}
 

Last updated 8 July 2004 

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