LOCATION: Yekaterinburg
Address:  32 Griboyedov ulitsa, Yekaterinburg 620010
Telephone:  (3432)27-5105, (3432)27-4450, (3432)27-4303
[Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 1995), p. 92.]
HOMEPAGE: http://www.sverd.ru  {Updated 5/16/2003 NL}
ADMINISTRATION:
Director:  Boris Pimanovich Shevelin
[SverdNIIKhimmash Web Site, http://www.sverd.ru.] {Entered 3/16/04 CC}
STRUCTURE:
SverdNIIkhimmash has four engineering buildings, two test laboratories, two prototype production facilities, and storage facilities.[1] In April 1995, the institute became an open joint stock company.[2]
Sources:
[1] Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 1995), p. 93.
[2] V. G. Shatsillo, "SverdNIIkhimmash--40 let v atomnoy promyshlennosti," Atompressa, No. 1, 14 January 1998, p. 2. {Entered 5/20/99 LBN}
ACTIVITIES:
SverdNIIkhimmash produces equipment for the nuclear fuel cycle. Enrichment and fuel fabrication equipment includes the following:  CSO-230 centrifuges, CSO-300 centrifuges, equipment for producing fuel pellets that can also be used in reprocessing irradiated fuel, UF6 processing facilities, equipment to transport powdered uranium oxide, fuel pellet presses, MOX-fuel molding equipment, and equipment for assembling, sealing, and unloading fuel rods.  Waste-handling and -disposition equipment includes the following:  bituminization equipment for low- and medium-level radioactive waste, incineration facilities for solid and liquid radioactive waste, a prototype vitrification furnace for high-level radioactive waste, radioactive waste reprocessing and disposition equipment, bridge cranes for use in high-radiation environments, fuel assembly and fuel rod destruction facilities, equipment for preparing fast breeder reactor fuel for reprocessing, equipment for radioactive waste cementation, evaporation equipment for processing high-level waste, and the EP-500 vitrification facility.  SverdNIIkhimmash also produces systems to locate NPP accidents.[1]  The institute helped design the desalination plant in Aktau, Kazakhstan, upgraded extraction and filtration equipment at Russia's RT-1 plant at the Mayak Chemical Combine,  and has installed equipment at facilities in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Finland, France, Hungary, Libya, Poland, and South Yemen. SverdNIIkhimmash employee V. G. Shatsillo noted in January 1998 that the institute was increasing its cultivation of foreign contacts.[2]
Sources:
[1] Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: IBR Corporation, 1995), pp. 92-94.] {Entered 10/19/98 LBN}
[2] V. G. Shatsillo, "SverdNIIkhimmash--40 let v atomnoy promyshlennosti," Atompressa, No. 1, 14 January 1998, p. 2. {Entered 5/20/99 LBN}

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