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BARS-5 (FNRS)

BARS-5 (FNRS), a research reactor (fast) in Snezhinsk, Russia, with 10 kW of thermal power, operated by Russian Federal Nuclear Centre VNIITF. Operating, first critical in 1986.

It is one of the 57 research reactors operating in Russia. It went critical 40 years after the first research reactor in Russia, F-1 (1946). It is one of 15 fast research reactors operating worldwide, spread across 6 countries. It has been 40 years since its first criticality.

Country

Russia

City

Snezhinsk

Type

Fast

Thermal power

10 kW

Operator

Russian Federal Nuclear Centre VNIITF

Status

Operating

First criticality

1986

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