Nuclear technology in the Soviet Union

The RBMK (, РБМК; reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy, "high-power channel-type reactor") is a class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed and built by the Soviet Union. It is somewhat like a boiling water reactor as water boils in the pressure tubes. It is one of two power reactor types to enter serial production in the Soviet Union during the 1970s, the other being the VVER reactor. The name refers to its design where instead of a large steel pressure vessel surrounding the entire core, the core is surrounded by a cylindrical annular steel tank inside a concrete vault and eac

The water-water energetic reactor (WWER), or VVER (from ) is a series of pressurized water reactor designs originally developed in the Soviet Union, and now Russia, by OKB Gidropress. The idea of such a reactor was proposed at the Kurchatov Institute by Savely Moiseevich Feinberg. VVER were originally developed before the 1970s, and have been continually updated. They were one of the initial reactors developed by the USSR, the other being the infamous RBMK. As a result, the name VVER is associated with a wide variety of reactor designs spanning from generation I reactors to modern generation I

physics research institute in Russia

The Mayak Production Association (, , from 'lighthouse') is a nuclear facility near Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, with production reactors and a reprocessing plant. Its reprocessing capacity, at 400 tonnes of heavy metal per year, is the second-largest in the world, following the La Hague site in France. It is currently used for military and civilian radioisotope production, and was historically central to the Soviet nuclear weapons program.

Russian research institute dedicated to the development of nuclear energy

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research center within the Russian Academy of Sciences

thumb|RORSAT Upravlyaemy Sputnik Aktivnyy ( for Controlled Active Satellite), or US-A, also known in the Western world as Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite or RORSAT (GRAU index 17F16K), was a series of 33 Soviet reconnaissance satellites. Launched between 1967 and 1988 to monitor NATO and merchant vessels using radar, the satellites were powered by nuclear reactors.

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research institute based in Sarov, Russia

Atomstroyexport (ASE) JSC () is the Russian Federation's nuclear power equipment and service exporter. It is a fully owned subsidiary of Rosatom.

The EGP-6 is a Russian small nuclear reactor design. It is a scaled down version of the RBMK design. As the RBMK, the EGP-6 uses water for cooling and graphite as a neutron moderator, but uses natural circulation instead of pumping. EGP is a Russian acronym but translated into English it stands for Power Heterogenous Loop reactor. It is the world's smallest running commercial nuclear reactor, however smaller reactors are currently in development. The EGP-6 reactors are the only reactors to be built on permafrost.

Russian reactor type from the BN family; fast breeder, cooled with sodium

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Atommash (until 1991 Soviet Redmash) () is a multidisciplinary engineering company located in Volgodonsk, Rostov Oblast, Russia. It was established in 1976 as a Soviet nuclear engineering corporation. Following privatization and bankruptcy in 1999, the industrial facilities of the enterprise were owned and managed by ZAO Energomash–Atommash, a part of the diversified engineering company Energomash.

Soviet nuclear reactor for orbital spacecraft

Russian state-owned nuclear reactor designer

Russian (formerly Soviet) artillery factory in the Sormovo district of Gorky

Techsnabexport (), internationally known as TENEX, is an overseas trading company owned by Russian state-owned company Rosatom. Techsnabexport is an exporter of enriched uranium and a supplier of nuclear fuel cycle products.

facility in Dimitrovgrad, Russia

USSR government ministry supervising nuclear industry

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Russian research organization

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Russian Nuclear Facility (estab. 1950)

institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Gagarinsky District, Russia

BES-5, also known as Bouk or Buk (), was a Soviet thermoelectric generator that was used to power 31 satellites in the US-A (RORSAT) project. The heat source was a uranium 235 fast fission nuclear reactor (FNR).

right|thumb|Diagram of the soviet radioisotopic thermoelectric generator "Beta-M". Black: Framework Blue: Outer radiation protection Yellow: Heat isolation Orange: Inner radiation protection (Tungsten) Red: Radionuclide heat source (Strontium-90) Pink: Thermoelectric unit Mounted above the assembly are fins for cooling, outlined in black.|360x360px

company based in Novosibirsk, Russia

institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The BN-reactor is a type of sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor built in Russia from the company OKBM Afrikantov. Two BN-reactors are to date (2015) the only commercial fast breeder reactors in operation worldwide.