The History of the Soviet Atomic Industry

Arkadii Kruglov worked for over forty years in the atomic industry for the former Soviet Union, including 16 years work at the closed institute Chelyabinsk-40. He was awarded a State Prize in 1980 for his work on procedures to protect against air pollution due to radioactive releases from nuclear power stations and he later participated in the Governmental Commission to clean up after the accident in Chernobyl. He died in 1997.

Prewar Period (1918-1941). War Period (1941-45). Infancy of Nuclear Weapons Creation in the USSR. First Production Reactor A. First Radiochemical Plant B. First Plant for Producing Nuclear Charges (Plant V). Concluding Phase of the First Plutonium Bomb Project. Semipalatinsk Test Site. Experimental and Full-Scale Enriched T235U Production. First Soviet Heavy-Water Nuclear Reactors. Natural Uranium Resources for the Nuclear Program. First Order for Producing Items of Uranium Metal and Other Materials for Atomic Industry. Nuclear and Radiation Safety. Conclusion. References. Index.