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SNI, IR-100

SNI, IR-100, a research reactor (pool) in Sevastopol, Ukraine, with 200 kW of thermal power, operated by Sevastopol Univ. of Nucl. Energy and Industry. Operating, first critical in 1967.

By thermal power it ranks second among the 3 research reactors operating in Ukraine. It went critical 7 years after the first research reactor in Ukraine, WWR-M Kiev (1960). It is one of 48 pool-type reactors operating worldwide, spread across 28 countries. Its declared uses include isotope production, neutron scattering, neutron radiography and transmutation.

Country

Ukraine

City

Sevastopol

Type

Pool

Thermal power

200 kW

Operator

Sevastopol Univ. of Nucl. Energy and Industry

Status

Operating

First criticality

1967

Purpose

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

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