LOCATION: Moscow
Address: 46 Varshavskoye shosse, Moscow, 115230
Telephone: (095) 111-9811, 111-9508, 111-9496
[VNIITFA Web Site, http://www.vniitfa.ru.] {Entered 3/16/04 CC}
HOMEPAGE: http://www.vniitfa.ru/{entered 1/25/2001 DK}
ADMINISTRATION:
Director: Nikolay Kuzelev
[A. Kuznetsov, "Novyye gorizonty VNIITFA," Atompressa, August 1998, No. 27,  pp. 1-2] {Entered 3/17/98 LBB}
BACKGROUND:
The institute was called the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Radiation Technology (VNIIRT) when it was founded in 1960.  The institute was the first in the world to develop computerized industrial radionuclide tomography, which is used to check fuel rods for defects.[1]  VNIITFA's Moscow branch employed 1751 people as of 1995.[2]
Sources:
[1] A. Kuznetsov, "Novyye gorizonty VNIITFA," Atompressa, August 1998, No. 27,  pp. 1-2.
[2] Nuclear Business Directory (Moscow: International Business Relations Corporation), 1995,  p. 49. {Entered 3/17/98 LBB}
ACTIVITIES:
VNIITFA's activities include developing methods and equipment for monitoring various stages of the fuel cycle (the extraction of uranium ore by in-situ leaching, the production of nuclear fuel, and the preparation of fuel elements), ensuring safety in nuclear power engineering, and monitoring construction components and reactor coolants.  The institute has developed an apparatus for automated ore analysis.  VNIITFA scientists have developed the NAR-12 system to continually monitor boron-10 concentrations in the coolant of the first circuit of VVER reactors.  In 1997, VNIITFA produced 70 such systems for NPPs in Russia and other countries.  The Kozloduy, Bushehr, Zaporizhzhya, South Ukraine, Rivne, Khmelnytskyy, Rostov, Novovoronezh, Kalinin, Kola, and Balakovo NPPs may have this system installed.  At the end of 1997, VNIITFA and the Nuclear Energy Institute of the Kazakhstan National Nuclear Center created a prototype for a system to monitor iodine concentrations in gaseous emissions, for which tests were conducted on a research reactor in Almaty. VNIITFA has a cooperative work arrangement with the Machine Building Plant in Elektrostal.  The institute plans to develop the first-ever radiation-resistant high temperature gas-discharge neutron detector.  The Russian Customs Commission ordered and partially financed VNIITFA's development of portable X-ray radiometric metal and alloy analyzers.  The instrument is able to quickly identify the composition of metals in small objects and large transport vehicles.  As of August 1998, the institute was planning for a large volume of work in radionuclide power engineering. VNIITFA developed the RITEG (radioisotope thermoelectric generator), which uses strontium-90 and plutonium-238.  The generator is used in remote regions as a power supply for such equipment as radars and beacons.  VNIITFA was entrusted with designing an isotopic power supply source for the planned Russian spaceship flight to Mars.
[A. Kuznetsov, "Novyye gorizonty VNIITFA," Atompressa, August 1998, No. 27,  pp. 1-2] {Entered 3/17/98 LBB}
 
STRUCTURE: VNIITFA has an affiliate in Saransk.
[Nuclear Business Directory, International Business Relations Corporation, 1995,  p. 49.] {Entered 3/17/98 LBB}

 

 

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