St. Petersburg
Address: 28 Vtoroy Murinskiy prospekt,
St. Petersburg 194021
Telephone: (812) 247-56-41, 247-57-37
Fax: (812) 247-80-95, 247-57-81
Email: ark@atom.nw.ru, moshkov@atom.nw.ru
http://www.atom.nw.ru/RIE/INDEX.HTM
Director: Aleksandr Andreyevich Rimskiy-Korsakov
The Khlopin Radium Institute was established in 1922 to conduct research
and development for the nuclear industry, perform analytical laboratory
services, conduct environmental investigations of nuclear tests, design
accident response procedures, and produce isotopes. The Institute employs
1,300 specialists.[1] The Khlopin Institute developed reprocessing
technologies.[2]
Activities also include research on MOX fuel in VVER reactors.[3] The Radium
Institute is involved in a project to study the feasibility of using ex-weapon
and civilian plutonium as fuel in fast and thermal reactors, which received
an award from ISTC in 1995.[4]
The Khlopin Radium Institute includes an experimental
facility in Gatchina, an experimental and production facility in Sosnovyy Bor,
and radiometric laboratories.
less than 5kg of plutonium;[1] approximately 2kg of HEU[2]
This site participates in the US
Department of Energy MPCA program. An initial site survey was
conducted May 1996. As of January 1997, specialists were determining equipment
needs, assessing needed MPC&A systems improvements, and upgrading MPC&A
at the central storage facility.
For a description of the MPC&A work being 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.
(For more recent developments, see the
Nuclear Research Facilities Developments file):
1/96: MINATOM AND DOE SIGN JOINT STATEMENT ON KHLOPIN MPC&A
Under the "Joint Statement on Control, Accounting, and Physical Protection
of Nuclear Materials," signed by Russia's Minatom and the US Department
of Energy in January 1996, cooperative physical protection projects developed
under the Sandia National Laboratory's leadership were extended to the
Khlopin Radium Institute.
3/25/93: GOVERNMENT APPROVES DECREE TO CREATE
NUCLEAR ACCIDENT RESPONSE CENTERS
On 25 March 1993, the Russian Cabinet of Ministers
approved a resolution according to which the Ministry
of Atomic Energy and the State
Committee on Civil Defense Affairs, Emergencies, and Liquidation of Consequences
of Natural Disasters are to create five "accident-technical centers"
(ATCs) as part of an effort to improve Russia's emergency warning and response
system as it relates to nuclear facilities. An ATC is to be created at
each of the following locations: the All-Russian
Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF), the
All-Russian
Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF), the Novovoronezh
nuclear power plant, the Siberian
Chemical Combine, and the V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute. The
work of the ATCs is to be supported by the Ministries of Atomic
Energy, Defense, the Economy,
Transportation, Communications, and Health.
Last updated 8 July 2004
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