Sevastopol National University of Nuclear Energy and Industry, Ukraine

The University is located in a building, founded for the Marine Cadet Corps on the Order of Tsar Nicolas II in 1915. The Institute (University since 2005) was established in 1996, on the basis of the Atomic Energy Faculty at Sevastopol Naval Institute, which has half a century of experience in training specialists in nuclear physics and radiation safety. The Institute’s key function in Soviet times was to train personnel to operate submarine reactors. About 3,200 students were trained simultaneously, by about 700 officers.

In 1967 a water cooled IR-100 research reactor was built, later a physical stand (critical uranium-water assembly), a near-critical assembly, and a radio-chemical laboratory were put into operation.

Activities are mainly focused on ensuring the safe operation of nuclear power plants, study of characteristics of the reactor cores, and the application of radiation technologies. Aside from nuclear energy issues, the Institute is working on biological unsealing of weapons, bio-destruction of explosives, and the creation of mobile complexes for the utilization of explosives and soil re-cultivation.

The University presently employs about 1,200 people, including 2 academicians, 36 Doctors of Science and 139 PhDs, and has 5,000 students. Sevastopol National University of Nuclear Energy and Industry is the only higher educational institution in the Ukrainian nuclear complex.