Russia’s president Vladimir Puit has formally approved the startup of the Pik high-flux research reactor at the BP Konstantinov St Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), part of the country’s Kurchatov Institute national research centre.
“I am asking you to put the reactor into energy operation,” Mr Putin told a virtual launch ceremony, according to state news agency Tass.
The Pik reactor is Russia’s newest research reactor, but its startup has been repeatedly delayed.
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