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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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| Founded | 1922 (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 |
| Website | khlopin |
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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