TPU provides the unique radiation facilities, which are not available at any other Russian university. These include a research nuclear reactor, a cyclotron, research betatron accelerators, high current pulse electron and ion accelerators, linear induction accelerators, ion accelerators based on electrostatic generator, a research microtron.
TPU R&D projects in radiation technologies:
Mikhail Anikin
Head of Nuclear Security Service, Research Nuclear Reactor Center, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Lifetime and radiometric tests of ionization chamber suspensions.
- Tests of engineering materials.
- Research of neutron capture therapy of malignant tumors.
Prof. Sergey Liventsov
Head of Research Laboratory for Electronics and Automation of Physical Facilities, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Digital twin of the fabrication and refabrication module for plutonium nitride fuel for BREST-300 fast neutron reactor.
- Computer simulator of radiochemical production.
- The development of optimization a diagnostics code in the production of plutonium nitride fuel for BREST-300 fast neutron reactor.
Dr. Ekaterina Stepanova
Experimental Physics Division, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Ionizing radiation impact on the structure and properties of advanced materials.
Prof. Yury Tyurin
Experimental Physics Division, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Experimental and theoretical studies of surface and volume of solid objects under nonequilibrium radiation and plasma-chemical impacts.
Prof. Alexander Gradoboev
Experimental Physics Division, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Radiation resistance of semi-conductors and electronic products.
Prof. Andrey Lider
Head of the Experimental Physics Division, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Studies of defect formation and radiation resistance of materials under the proton and helium radiation up to 2.5 MeV.
Ivan Ushakov
Engineer, Laboratory of Isotopic Analysis and Technology, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Determination of specific activity for carbon-14 of 103-107 Bq/g in the samples of reactor graphite.
Dr. Valery Varlachev
Head of Nuclear Reactor Laboratory No 33
- The development of the technology for neutron transmutation doping of single-crystal silicon ingots.
- The development of silicon single crystal-based neutron detector.
Prof. Vladimir Shtanko
Materials Science Department, School of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
- Numerical simulation of pulsed electron beam dissipation in dielectrics and semiconductors.
- Radiostimulated fast processes in high-resistance materials at high levels of electronic excitation.
Prof. Vladimir Oleshko
Materials Science Department, School of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
- Physical processes in materials impacted by high power pulsed electron accelerators.
Prof. Nikolay Ratakhin
Materials Science Department, School of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
- Sources of powerful nanosecond fluxes of charged particles and X-rays.
- The development of unique terawatt multi-purpose pulse generators.
Dr. Mikhail Zhuravlev
Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory for Pulse-Beam, Electric Discharge and Plasma Technologies, School of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
- Diagnostics of an electron beam and ion beam by induced X-ray bremsstrahlung and gamma quanta as a result of nuclear reactions.
Dr. Denis Ponomarev
Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory for Pulse-Beam, Electric Discharge and Plasma Technologies, School of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
- The development of a high-power pulse electron accelerator aimed at the obtaining of continuous x-rays.
- Synthesis of SiO2, TiO2 nanopowders and SixCyOz, TixCyOz сomposites with a pulse electron accelerator.
Dr. Galina Kholodnaya
Research Fellow, Laboratory for Pulse-Beam, Electric Discharge and Plasma Technologies, School of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
- The application of pulse ion accelerator to obtain core-shell nanocomposites.
Dr. Roman Sazonov
Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory for Pulse-Beam, Electric Discharge and Plasma Technologies
- Treatment and sterilization of industrial wastewater by a pulsed electron beam.
- Flue gas treatment with a pulsed electron beam.
- Implementing a pulsed electron beam to obtain the metal oxide nanopowders.
Dr. Ivan Egorov
Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory for Pulse-Beam, Electric Discharge and Plasma Technologies
- The development and study of pulsed accelerator with respect to the delay of electron emission into diod.
- The impact of pulsed electron beam on p. penicillium in wheat grain.
Dr. Vladislav Tarbokov
Lead Engineer, Laboratory for Pulse-Beam, Electric Discharge and Plasma Technologies
- Generation and implementation of intense pulsed ion beams.
Dr. Evgeny Nesterov
Head of Nuclear Reactor Laboratory No 31
- Obtaining and separating the radionuclides for diagnostics and therapy of human diseases.
- Radioenvironmental monitoring.
Dr. Roman Zelchan
Senior Research Fellow, Oncotheranostics Research Center, Research School of Chemistry and Applied Biomedical Sciences
- Radionuclide theranostics of prostate cancer.
Prof. Anatoly Surzhikov
Head of Testing and Diagnostics Division
- Studies of effects and phenomena in inorganic materials under high temperatures and intensive radiation. impacts, the development of fundamentals of advanced technological processes.
Prof. Elena Lysenko
Head of the Laboratory of Electronics, Dielectrics and Semiconductors, Research School of High-Energy Physics
- Studies of inorganic powder characteristics under high temperatures and intensive radiation fields.
- Scientific fundamentals of advanced technological processes for material obtaining and modifying.
Dr. Alexey Goryunov
Head of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Division
- Automation of radiochemical production.
- Automation of triflate production.
- Automation of polycrystalline silicon production.
- Multifunctional electric drive.
Dr. Valery Krivobokov
Head of Weinberg Research Center, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Automated workplace for thermal control coating of space vehicles.
- UVC Universal vacuum complex.
- Large reflector metallization facilities.
- Facilities for multifunctional coating of equipment surfaces in space vehicles.
Prof. Gennady Remnev
Head of Laboratory for Pulse-Beam, Electric Discharge and Plasma Technologies, School of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
- The development of a light ion pulse accelerator prototype (Ei= 4-10 MeV, ti < 10 ns, f – up to 1Hz), for the synthesis of ultra-short-lived 18F, 11C, 13N, 15О isotopes.
- A pulse accelerator prototype for medicine.
- Light ion pulse accelerators for the synthesis of medical isotopes.
- The development of frequency submicrosecond electron accelerators.