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V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute

V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute

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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]

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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 [ru] 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 [ru] in 1932, being constructed with the help of Igor Kurchatov, operational by 1937.[6][3]

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  1. [1]
    Institution – ISTC.
  2. [2]
    V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute. About the Institute Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
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    Emelyanov, V. S. (November 1971). "Nuclear Energy in the Soviet Union". Science and Public Affairs: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. XXVII (9): 39. Bibcode:1971BuAtS..27i..38E. doi:10.1080/00963402.1971.11455411.
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    V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute. Creation and development of the Institute. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
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    • Erickson, John (1999) [1983]. The Road to Berlin: Stalin's War with Germany, Volume Two. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 79. ISBN 0-300-07813-7.
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    V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute. Chronology Archived 2011-04-26 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 25 February 2012.


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