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Aksamit

Aksamit, a research reactor (critical assembly) in Moscow, Russia, operated by Nuclear Research Center, Kurchatov Institute. Operating, first critical in 2002.

It is one of the 57 research reactors operating in Russia, one of 6 zero-power assemblies among them. It went critical 56 years after the first research reactor in Russia, F-1 (1946). It is one of 44 critical assemblies operating worldwide, spread across 12 countries.

Country

Russia

City

Moscow

Type

Critical assembly

Thermal power

critical

Operator

Nuclear Research Center, Kurchatov Institute

Status

Operating

First criticality

2002

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