Research Institute of Atomic Reactors

Coordinates: 54°11′11″N 49°28′31″E / 54.18639°N 49.47528°E / 54.18639; 49.47528

Chemical treatment of processed nuclear fuel at the institute.

The Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (Russian: Научно-исследовательский институт атомных реакторов) is an institute for nuclear reactor research in Dimitrovgrad in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. The institute houses eight nuclear research reactors: SM, Arbus (ACT-1), MIR.M1, RBT-6, RBT-10 / 1, RBT-10 / 2, BOR-60 and VK-50.

A senior president of General Atomics said in May 2015 that the world's best reactor for "developing new materials that will be able to endure the much higher temperatures, and endure the more energetic and neutron rich radiation environment inside the reactor", is the BOR-60.[1] BOR-60 had its operating license extended to 2020.[2]

References

  1. ↑ http://docs.house.gov/meetings/SY/SY20/20150513/103447/HHRG-114-SY20-Wstate-ParmentolaJ-20150513.pdf
  2. ↑ doi:10.1016/j.net.2015.03.002

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