Igor Ilyich Bondarenko

Igor Ilyich Bondarenko ( Russian Игорь Ильич Бондаренко ; born October 14, 1926 in Kiev ; † May 5, 1964 in Obninsk ) was a Soviet physicist ( nuclear physics and nuclear technology ).

He was deputy director of the Institute for Physics and Energy ( IPPE ) of the State Committee for the Use of Atomic Energy in the USSR in Obninsk . He was there since graduating in 1950 from Lomonosov University . The first commercial Soviet nuclear power plant was developed at IPPE (then Labor 5), founded in 1945. Bondarenko measured the fundamental physical quantities (cross-sections for fission, number of secondary neutrons, ratio of fission and neutron capture) for fast neutrons, important for the development of breeder reactors . This resulted in his dissertation (candidate title) in 1954. Further measurements by him and his group laid the basis for the calculation of all reactors with fast neutrons in the Soviet Union until 1958. This was reflected in the book Group constants for nuclear reactor calculations (Consultants Bureau, New York), which was also published in English in 1964 . But he experimented with his group on many other aspects of neutron physics and nuclear fission and also in experiments on nuclear physics that have nothing to do with nuclear technology and with plasma physics.

He also designed a number of fast neutron reactors (such as the Fast Pulse Reactor , FPR; commissioned at JINR in Dubna in 1960 ). He was also involved in the development of the rapid reactors BR 1, 2, 5 and others in Obninsk, for example the control system.

Another focus of his work was radiation protection.

In 1960 he received the Lenin Prize .

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• In memoriam: Igor Il'ich Bondarenko, Soviet Atomic Energy, June 1964, No. 6, 593-595