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UV

UV, a research reactor (subcritical assembly) in Moscow, Russia, operated by NRU Moscow Power Engineering Institute MEPI. Operating, first critical in 1980.

It is one of the 57 research reactors operating in Russia, one of 6 zero-power assemblies among them. It went critical 34 years after the first research reactor in Russia, F-1 (1946). It is one of 20 subcritical assemblies operating worldwide, spread across 13 countries. Its declared uses include teaching.

Country

Russia

City

Moscow

Type

Subcritical assembly

Thermal power

critical

Operator

NRU Moscow Power Engineering Institute MEPI

Status

Operating

First criticality

1980

Purpose

Teaching

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