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Giacint

Giacint, a research reactor (critical assembly) in Minsk, Belarus, operated by Joint Institute of Power and Nuclear Research "Sosny". Operating, first critical in 2009.

It is one of the 4 research reactors operating in Belarus, all of them zero-power assemblies. It went critical 47 years after the first research reactor in Belarus, IRT-M Minsk (1962). It is one of 44 critical assemblies operating worldwide, spread across 12 countries. Its declared uses include training and materials testing.

Country

Belarus

City

Minsk

Type

Critical assembly

Thermal power

critical

Operator

Joint Institute of Power and Nuclear Research "Sosny"

Status

Operating

First criticality

2009

Purpose

Training, materials testing

See also: every research reactor in Belarus · How research reactors work