RG-1M (heterogeneous reactor, upgraded) - a pool-type nuclear reactor. Designed for neutron-activation chemical analysis of geological and technological samples of the Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine .
| RG-1M | |
|---|---|
| Purpose of the reactor | Laboratory neutron source for neutron activation analysis |
| Technical specifications | |
| Heat carrier | Water |
| Fuel | Uranium dioxide (10% enrichment in uranium-235) |
| Thermal power | 5 kW (design), 100 kW (after modernization) |
| Electric power | not |
| Development | |
| Enterprise developer | GSPI |
| Constructor | NIKIET |
| The novelty of the project | The most northern laboratory reactor in the USSR and in the world |
| Construction and operation | |
| Location | Norilsk |
| Start | April 4, 1970 |
| Exploitation | 1970-1998 |
Content
History
In 1964 a group of specialists arrived from Krasnoyarsk to Norilsk, led by Vitaly Kovalenko, a man of tremendous penetration efficiency and organizational strength. Together with him came: radiochemist engineer Oleg Tikhomirov, electronics engineer Igor Dubkov, dosimetric engineer Boris Spitsyn, who became the basis of the future team. [one]
The chemical analysis methods used at that time were slow and laborious and did not provide the necessary sensitivity. The method proposed by Kovalenko and his comrades, which consisted in the study of samples in the neutron flux, became the basis for many methods that were subsequently successfully applied at the plant. Director of NGMK Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh supported a progressive initiative. In mid-1965, an order was signed to start building an activation analysis laboratory based on a project of the State Union Design Institute (GSPI) with the RG-1 nuclear reactor. It was developed by the Research and Development Design Institute of Energy Engineering (NIKIET). The base of Mount Barrier was chosen as the site for the construction of the reactor. The construction was carried out because of its specificity and novelty “Nickelstroy” and “Union Assembly Trust”, the Norilsk project office, the current Norilskproekt, headed by its head Vladimir Gilels, participated in the “binding” of the project. At the same time, the specialists of the future laboratory began to develop the first methods of neutron activation analysis (developed by N. Storozhenko, V. Varik, V. Boganov, and others). At the same time one of the developers of the reactor arrived from Moscow, he is the first chief engineer of the reactor Andrei Mikhailovich Benevolensky.
In 1970, the reactor was started up as RG-1, with a heat output of 5 kW. In 1972, modernized and received the name of the RG-1M. Thermal power of the reactor increased to 100 kW. The reactor worked until 1998. The fuel was unloaded and sent for recycling to the Mayak plant in 1999. Soon all the buildings of the reactor and laboratory complex were demolished, a concrete pad was left at the site of the reactor. [2] [3]
Reactor Chief Engineers
- nineteen?? - 19 ?? - Benevolensky Alexander Mikhailovich
- nineteen?? - 19 ?? - Nikitin Vladimir Nikolaevich
- nineteen?? - 1993 - Petrov Alexander Ivanovich
- 1993 - 1999 - Krotov Dmitry Vladimirovich