Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan

Also known as INP, ИЯФ АН РУз, Yadro fizikasi instituti

The Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan is a research institute in the Ulugbek settlement of Tashkent, created by government decree in 1956. It works on nuclear and particle physics, solid-state physics, activation analysis, radiochemistry and isotope production. Its WWR-SM research reactor started in 1959 at 2 MW and has run at 10 MW since a reconstruction completed in 1980; its fuel enrichment was lowered to 36% in 1998 and to 19.82% in 2009. A May 2016 decree abolished the institute and the reactor was stopped on 2 July 2016, but a 2017 presidential decree re-established the institute, and new fuel from Russia's TVEL was shipped in June 2018.