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FKBN-2M

FKBN-2M, a research reactor (critical assembly) in Sarov, Russia, operated by All Russian Research Inst. of Exp. Physics VNIIEF. Operating, first critical in 2001.

It is one of the 57 research reactors operating in Russia, one of 6 zero-power assemblies among them. It went critical 55 years after the first research reactor in Russia, F-1 (1946). It is one of 44 critical assemblies operating worldwide, spread across 12 countries. It has been 25 years since its first criticality.

Country

Russia

City

Sarov

Type

Critical assembly

Thermal power

critical

Operator

All Russian Research Inst. of Exp. Physics VNIIEF

Status

Operating

First criticality

2001

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