PIK reactor experimental capabilities

The arrangement and main neutron-physical parameters of the PIK high-flux research reactor are described. Structural features of experimental facilities with which the reactor is equipped and the field of the problems for the solution of which it is to be used, are considered. The reactor cope having the volume of about 50 l is surrounded by the heavy water reflector and represents the compact 100 MW intensive source of fission fast neutrons.The usual water is used as a coolant. The reactor has a three-circuit cooling system. The reactor and neutron laboratory form a united complex For accumulation and processing of the information the measuring and information complex based on the ES-1040 computer is created. It is concluded that high neutron fluxes, flexi-- bility and manoeuvrability of the reactor combined with special measures ensuring the high precesion of measurements permit to obtain uniqUe information in the fields of nuclear physics and weak interaction physics as well as in the fields of studies on the condensed state and biological physics