Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (full name: I.I. Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, russian: Государственный научный центр Российской Федерации Физико-энергетический институт, ГНЦ РФ-ФЭИ; IPPE) is a

research and development Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existi ...

institute in the field of nuclear technology located in

Obninsk Obninsk (russian: О́бнинск) is a city in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of the Protva River southwest of Moscow and northeast of Kaluga. Population: History The history of Obninsk began in 1945 when the First Research In ...

, Russia. It is a subsidiary of

Rosatom Rosatom, ( rus, Росатом, p=rɐsˈatəm}) also known as Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom or Rosatom State Corporation, is a Russian state corporation headquartered in Moscow that special ...

History

IPPE was established in May 1946 to develop nuclear power technology; it was preceded by First Research Institute Laboratory "V", established 1945, which developed into IPPE. The purpose of the Institute was the development of nuclear reactors and to solve scientific and engineering tasks in the field of nuclear power. The staff of the Institute had built the world's first nuclear power plant in Obninsk, AM-1 ("Атом Мирный", Russian for Atom Mirny, or "peaceful atom"), was commissioned at IPPE on 27 June 1954.

Developments

During its existence the Institute has developed more than 120 different projects, including: • the fast reactors BR-1, BR-2, BR-5, BR-10; • the reactor BOR-60 in RIAR ( Dimitrovgrad); • the reactor

BN-350 reactor The BN-350 is a sodium-cooled, fast reactor located at the ''Mangyshlak Nuclear Power Plant'', located in Aktau (formerly known as Shevchenko under the control of the USSR in 1964–1992), Kazakhstan, on the shore of the Caspian Sea. Constr ...

for a nuclear power plant in

Aktau Aktau ( kk, Aqtau, Ақтау , russian: Актау) is a city in Kazakhstan, located on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea. Its current name means "white mountain" in Kazakh, which may be due to its cliffs that overlook the Caspian. From 1964 to ...

(

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

); • the reactor

BN-600 reactor The BN-600 reactor is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Designed to generate electrical power of 600 MW in total, the plant dispatches 560 MW ...

and BN-800 reactor for Beloyarsk NPP; • the reacto
SVBR-100 reactor
• space Beech nuclear reactor and TOPAZ nuclear reactor; • naval lead-bismuth liquid metal reactors: VT-1 reactor,

BM-40A reactor The BM-40A reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used to power four of the seven boats of the Soviet Navy's Project 705 Лира (Lira or Alfa in NATO designation) fourth generation submarines. It is a liquid metal cooled reactor (LMR), using h ...

OK-550 reactor The OK-550 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used to power three of the seven boats of the Soviet Navy's Project 705 Лира (Lira or Alfa in NATO designation) fourth generation submarines. It is a liquid metal cooled reactor (LMR), using ...

l • mobile nuclear power plant - TES-3 ( ТЭС-3)

International Collaboration

The Institute collaborates with the leading scientific and research organizations of Russia, CIS and foreign countries. Among the most international projects can be named: - involves on a large-scale project:

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FAIR-Russia
- the cooperation with France concerning the creation of fast reactors; - joint research with the USA, France, Germany, and Japan concerning reusing ex-nuclear materials of the reactor BH-600; - joint project development of the fast reactor CEFR with

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

; - joint project development of the fast reactor KALIMER with

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

; - interested in FBNR project;

References

External links

* Nuclear research institutes in Russia Nuclear technology companies of Russia Rosatom Research and development in Russia Research institutes in the Soviet Union Companies based in Kaluga Oblast Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union Obninsk Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Kaluga Oblast {{russia-company-stub