Kurchatov Institute

The Kurchatov Institute (Russian Российский научный центр " Курчатовский институт " ) is a physico- technical institute in Russia. It was until 1955 in charge of secret research projects and known only by the name Laboratory No. 2 of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In the Soviet Union it was known as " Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy " known ( Институт Атомной Энергии им. И.В. Курчатова ) КИАЭ abbreviated ( KIAE ). It is named after Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov. The institute is located in Moscow at the Kurchatov Square 1

History

First designed for the development of nuclear weapons, was later the majority of Soviet nuclear reactors, such as the RBMK, designed there. Emerged in the 1950s, also the first tokamak devices for nuclear fusion (T3 and T4 from 1968 ). Until 1991, the institute was under the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy, after that it was directly subordinated to the Russian government as RRC (Russian Research Center) " Kurchatov Institute ". The Director of the Institute shall be appointed by the Russian Prime Minister, on the recommendation of Rosatom. Since 2005, Mikhail Kovalchuk is the director. In February 2007, the Institute was elected as the main center for the development of nanotechnology in Russia.

Data of the reactor units

In addition, the Kurchatov Institute has 27 research reactors, seven of which have been decommissioned and is temporarily turned off. Thus, even 19 reactors in operation.