Founded on September 16, 1990 by a resolution of USSR Ministry of Atomic Power Industry. Since February 19, 1992 it has operated under NAS (former R&D Center of Electrophysical Treatment).
Its primary research guidelines are:
- radiation and nuclear processes and their application in nuclear power and radiation technologies;
- nonlinear, nonstationary and stochastic processes and their application in nuclear physics and electrophysics.
Major research results and developments of the Institute:
- It has been found that thermographic defectometry methods permit an identification of anomalous temperature gradients, which may cause microcrack formation. The concept of thermography diagnostics of potentially defective zones in materials used in NPP equipment has been developed by employing the activation method of correlation IR-radiometry and in conjunction with other nondestructive control methods.
- The method of unitary clothing transformations in relativistic quantum field theory within the model of nucleon and natural pion fields with Yukawa-type interaction has been used to construct generators of Poincare group, renormalize interaction vertices and determine the conditions for vertex regularization in higher orders by the coupling constant.
- A non-local quantum electrodynamic approach, describing the relativistic structure of atomic nuclei in electro-dynamic processes, which satisfy all the requirements of quantum gauge field theory, has been developed.
- The direct analysis of grain boundary cavitation development in irradiated materials under conditions of structural and high-temperature superplasticity has been performed. It has been determined that the activation energy of superplastic deformation agrees with the activation energy of grain boundary or grain volume self-diffusion for alloys showing structural superplasticity in the solid state. The results obtained are of importance for technologies of material processing with the application of superplasticity effect.