A great deal of talk about Japan and nuclear threat have suddenly reminded me where I had been living since I was born. Near a nuclear reactor!This is The high-Beam Reactor PIK, situated in Gatchina town, 40 km from Saint-Petersbourg.
My grandmather and grandfather and many grandparent and parents of my friends are working there.
The city itself began developing since the reactor was build in 1978.
PIC is Russia's only really advanced neutron source of constant actionin. It is research reactor (the maximum neutron flux with the flow "n/sm2Chs 1015, the number of positions on the beams).
It is sad that experimental possibilities PIK reactor are unique, and in coming years anywhere in the world such reactors would not be created.
The reactor is still working these days descpite it had exceeded its limits years ago. The second ractor was built and officially was opened 2 years ago.
Only officially though.
