IBR-2

License to operate nuclear facility

The IBR-2 reactor with its unique technical approach produces one of the most intense neutron fluxes at the moderator surface among the world's reactors: ~10¹⁶ n/cm²/s, with a power of 1850 MW in pulse.

Nevertheless, the reactor is "ecologically friendly": it consumes very little electrical energy as compared to other research reactors, uses a very little amount of fuel (less than 20 l) which is changed once in 15-20 years.

The reactor operates continuously for a 12 day cycle followed by a shutdown to prepare for the next experiments. In addition, there is a longer shutdown to carry out necessary maintenance work during the summer time. Normally there are about 9 cycles a year.

Work schedule

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Archive of monitoring data of IBR-2 power

List of the instruments included in the user program

INSTRUMENT	DOMAIN AND OBJECT OF RESEARCH	RESPONSIBLE
DIFFRACTION
HRFD	Determination of structural parameters of crystalline materials (lattice parameters, atomic coordinates and thermal factors) with high precision	Sergey Sumnikov This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
FSD	Determination of residual stresses in bulk materials and products	Mr. Igor V. Papushkin This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
RTD	Determination of structural parameters of crystalline materials and nanosystems (lipid membranes, etc), real-time studies of chemical and physical processes	Dr. Evgeni Popov This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
DN-12	Determination of structural parameters of crystalline materials as function of external pressures	Dr. Sergey E. Kichanov This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
DN-6 (under construction)	Determination of structural parameters of crystalline materials as function of external pressures	Mr. Lukin V. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
EPSILON	In situ studies of macro- and microstresses in rocks and bulk materials	Dr. Dmitry Nikolaev This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SKAT	Studies of texture of geological samples (rocks, minerals)	Dr. Dmitry Nikolaev This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SMALL-ANGLE SCATTERING
YuMO	Determination of structural characteristics (size and shape of particles, agglomerates, pores, fractals) of nanostructured materials and nanosystems, including polymers, lipid membranes, proteins, solvents, etc	Dr. Alexander I. Kuklin This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
REFLECTOMETRY
GRAINS	Studies of surface and interface phenomena in soft and liquid nanosystems (magnetic fluids, polymers, lipid membranes)	Dr. Avdeev M. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
REMUR	Determination of magnetization profile of layered magnetic nanostructures, studies of proximity effects in nanosystems	Mr. Alexander V. Petrenko This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
REFLEX	Determination of structural characteristics of thin films and layered nanostructures	Sadilov V. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
INELASTIC SCATTERING
NERA	A study of lattice dynamics and structural parameters of molecular crystals, crystals with molecular ions, especially exhibiting polymorphism	Dr. Evgeny A. Goremychkin This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. co- responsible: Dr. Dorota M. Chudoba This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Neutron Activation Analysis
REGATA	Determination of the elemental composition of environmental, geological, biological, and other types of samples.	Dr. Inga Zinicovscaia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Responsible for the facility

Vadim Sikolenko
tel. +7 (49621) 6-40-45
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Main research areas

Stress, strain and texture measurements in geological, metal and ceramic samples.

Responsible for the facility:

Lukin Evgeny Valerievich
tel. +7(49621) 6-20-47
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Main research areas:

1.Crystal structure of materials in a wide range of pressures.
2.Reconfiguration of the magnetic structure of materials at a high pressure.
3. Research of the crystal and magnetic structure of compounds with a small volume using neutron diffraction in a wide temperature range.
4. Phase analysis of microsamples.

Responsible for the facility

Sergey Sumnikov
tel.: +7 (49621) 62-132
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Main research areas

1. Precision analysis of the structure of polycrystalline samples;
2. Analysis of the shape of monocrystal diffraction peaks with Δd/d ≈ 0.001;
3. Microstructure analysis of crystalline materials;
4. Analysis of magnetic ordering in polycrystals.

Responsible for the facility
Responsible for the facility:
Aleksander Kuklin
tel. +7 (49621) 6-74-17
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Main research areas

1. Sizes, spatial correlations and shapes of particles, agglomerates, pores and (or) the fractal dimension of crystalline, amorphous samples, colloidal solutions, biological objects in the range from 1 nm to several hundreds of nanometers;

2. Structural changes at phase transitions;

Instrument Responsible

Tsulaya Murman
Russia, Moscow reg., Dubna, Joliot-Curie str., 6
tel. +7 (49621) 6-37-83
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Main research fields

1. Investigation of nuclear neutron precession.

2. Investigation of magnetic structure.

Responsible for the facility

Dmitry Nikolaev

tel. +7 (49621) 6-59-72

e-mail: dmitry(at)nf.jinr.ru

Main research areas

Measurements of the texture in samples of structural materials, as well as in geological and biological samples

Responsible for the facility

Beskrovnyi Anatolii
tel. +7 (49621) 6-53-03
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Main research areas

1. Analysis of the crystalline and magnetic structures of functional materials in a wide temperature range from 2.5 to 1400 K.

2. Investigation of solid-phase chemical reactions, crystallization, hydration and dehydration processes, kinetics of structural and magnetic phase transitions in real-time mode.

3. Peculiarities of crystalline and magnetic structures: diffuse scattering in defective crystals, low-dimensional structures with a large unit cell, incommensurate modulated crystalline and magnetic structures, domain structures, low-intensity superstructural reflections and others.

Responsible for the facility

Goremychkin Eugeny A.
Russia, Moscow reg., Dubna, Joliot-Curie str., 6
tel. +7 (49621) 6-54-86
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Main research areas

1. Molecular dynamics of hydrogen-containing compounds, including pharmacological substances.
2. Atomic dynamics and structure of condensed matter, in particular, the investigation of substances with phase polymorphism;
3. Investigation of the magnetic and atomic dynamics of highly correlated systems.

Responsible for the facility
Inga Zinicovscaia
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tel. +7 (496) 21 6-56-09

Main research areas

1. Air quality monitoring (aerosol filter surveys, biomonitoring using mosses, lichens, leaves)
2. Estimation of the state of water objects
3. Soil bioremediation and wastewater treatment
4. Geology and geoecology
5. Analysis of food, medicinal plants
6. Nanotoxicology
7. Materials science
8. Biotechnology (development of new medicines and sorbents)
9. Archeology
10. Analysis of objects of extraterrestrial origin

Responsible for the facility
Nikolay Gundorin
tel. +7 (49621) 6-30-69
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Constantin Hramco
tel. +7 (49621) 6-37-56
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Main research areas
1. Elemental analysis using prompt gamma rays.

Responsible for the facility

Petrenko Alexander
Moscow Region, Dubna, Joliot Curie, 6
phone: +7 (49621) 6-31-19
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Main research areas

1. Layered magnetic and superconducting thin films;

2. Three-dimensional nanostructures;

3. Colloidal solutions;

4. Ferromagnetic fluids.

Resposible for the facilty

Rutkauskas Anton Vladimirovich

tel. +7 (49621) 6-49-69
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Main research areas

1. Study of the internal structure of objects using neutron radiography and tomography

2. Processes of water penetration into materials using real-time neutron radiography

Responsible for the facility
Aleksandr Kruglov
tel. +7 (49621) 6-47-89
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Main research areas

Research of internal stresses in structural materials and industrial products

Responsible for the facility

Zel Ivan Yurievich
tel.+7 (49621) 6-49-69
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Main research areas:

1. Crystalline and magnetic structure of functional materials under high pressure;

2. Structural and magnetic phase transitions under high pressure;

3. Dynamics of hydrogen-containing compounds under high pressure;

4. Research of small sample volumes using neutron diffraction over a wide temperature range.

Responsible for the facility
Papushkin Igor Viktorovich
tel. +7 (49621) 6-21-33
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Main research areas:

1. Investigations of internal mechanical stresses in materials are of both scientific and applied importance;
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Responsible for the facility

Timur Tropin

tel. +7(496) 21 6-41-65

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Main research areas

1. Reflectometry in the vertical scattering plane.

2. Liquid-containing interfaces.

Responsible for the facility

Valentin Sadilov
tel. +7 (496) 216-42-41
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Main research areas

1. Investigation of the structure of thin films on a solid substrate.

2. Non-polarized neutron beam mode: restoration of the parameters of the efficient layer thickness, roughness of the boundaries between the layers and the free surface, determination of the neutron-optical density of the layer materials.

3. Polarized neutron beam mode: estimation of the magnetic properties of the structure of the layers on the substrate surface, the type of magnetic ordering of the layers in an external magnetic field, magnetic parameters - the efficient thickness of the layers, the roughness of the boundaries between the layers and the free surface, the determination of the neutron-optical density of the materials of the layers.

Responsible for the facility

Chudoba Dorota

tel. 216-54-86; 216-41-73
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Main research areas:

Исследование на микроскопическом уровне структурных фазовых переходов;
Исследование процессов диффузии протонов в системах с различными типами водородных связей;
Исследование динамики протонов в молекулярных кристаллах, в широкой области передач энергий;
Исследования ассоциативных взаимодействий химических частиц, в том числе систем с образованием водородных связей различных типов.
Исследования магнитной динамики в соединениях с 4f и 3d переходных металлов

Responsible for the facility:

M.V. Avdeev

tel.: +7 (496) 216-26-74

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Main research areas:

1. Complex fluids, including magnetic fluids, surfactant solutions, anisotropic fluids, liquid crystals, etc.
2. Magnetic nanocomposites
3. Polymers, including magnetic polymers
4. Biological macromolecules, membranes, vesicles
5. Liposomes, including magnetosomes
6. Dispersions of carbon materials
7. Inhomogeneities in structural materials

Scientific facilities of the IBR-2 reactor

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*Virtual tour is valid for 2012