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Founded | 1922 |
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Type | NGO |
Focus | nuclear physics, radiochemistry and radioecology |
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Area served | Russian Federation |
Key people | Acting CEO: Mr Russkikh Ivan Mikhailovich |
Subsidiaries | Rosatom |
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khlopin |
The V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute, also known as the First Radium Institute, is a research and production institution located in Saint Petersburg specializing in the fields of nuclear physics, radio- and geochemistry, and on ecological topics, associated with the problems of nuclear power engineering, radioecology, and isotope production. [1] It is a subsidiary company of the Rosatom Russian state corporation. [2]
The institute was founded as State Radium Institute in 1922 under the initiative of V. I. Vernadskiy, [3] integrating all radiological enterprises present in St. Petersburg (then Petrograd) at that time. This also included a factory in Bondyuga ( Tatarstan), which was used by Vitaly Khlopin and others to generate Russia's first high-enriched radium compound. [4] The Radium Institute under Abram Ioffe was relocated to Kazan in World War II. [5]
The Radium Institute was renamed to V. G. Khlopin in his honor in 1950. [6]
At the Radium Institute, the first European cyclotron was proposed by George Gamow and Lev Mysovskii in 1932, being constructed with the help of Igor Kurchatov, operational by 1937. [6] [3]
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Founded | 1922 |
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Type | NGO |
Focus | nuclear physics, radiochemistry and radioecology |
Location |
|
Area served | Russian Federation |
Key people | Acting CEO: Mr Russkikh Ivan Mikhailovich |
Subsidiaries | Rosatom |
Website |
khlopin |
The V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute, also known as the First Radium Institute, is a research and production institution located in Saint Petersburg specializing in the fields of nuclear physics, radio- and geochemistry, and on ecological topics, associated with the problems of nuclear power engineering, radioecology, and isotope production. [1] It is a subsidiary company of the Rosatom Russian state corporation. [2]
The institute was founded as State Radium Institute in 1922 under the initiative of V. I. Vernadskiy, [3] integrating all radiological enterprises present in St. Petersburg (then Petrograd) at that time. This also included a factory in Bondyuga ( Tatarstan), which was used by Vitaly Khlopin and others to generate Russia's first high-enriched radium compound. [4] The Radium Institute under Abram Ioffe was relocated to Kazan in World War II. [5]
The Radium Institute was renamed to V. G. Khlopin in his honor in 1950. [6]
At the Radium Institute, the first European cyclotron was proposed by George Gamow and Lev Mysovskii in 1932, being constructed with the help of Igor Kurchatov, operational by 1937. [6] [3]