Russia · Saint-Petersburg · 59.938, 30.309 (approximate location)

PIK

PIK, a research reactor (tank) in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, with 100 MW of thermal power, operated by Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI). Operating, first critical in 2011.

It is one of the 57 research reactors operating in Russia. It went critical 65 years after the first research reactor in Russia, F-1 (1946). It is one of 36 tank-type reactors operating worldwide, spread across 23 countries. It is one of 4 research reactors in 3 countries that Rosatom / URSS designed or built.

Country

Russia

City

Saint-Petersburg

Type

Tank

Thermal power

100 MW

Operator

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)

Design and construction

Designed by NIKIET (Rosatom)

Status

Operating

First criticality

2011

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron scattering, neutron radiography, transmutation, activation analysis, materials testing

See also: every research reactor in Russia · How research reactors work · every reactor by Rosatom / URSS