Research Reactors

The uniqueness of RIAR is that its site locates quite a large number of research reactors – SM, MIR, RBT-6, RBT-10/1, RBT-10/2, BOR-60, VK-50 - joined with common infrastructure. To provide operation of these reactors, RIAR has systems for external and autonomous power supply, distilled and process water supply, gas supply, collection, reprocessing and storage of liquid and solid radwaste. There are also centralized workshops and departments for repair and maintenance of equipment, verification and metrology of measurement devices, fabrication of non-standard equipment, radiation safety, environmental control, physical protection, fire safety, accounting and control of fresh nuclear fuel, logistics and personnel training.

RIAR’s research reactors and high-capacity post-reactor examinations, their characteristics and importance, tasks and range of application, are the unique national technological base of Russia.