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DirectorateDirector: Prof. D.Sc. Jordan STAMENOVtel. (359 2) 974 37 61, (359 2) 7144 616, jstamen@inrne.bas.bg

Vice-Directors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dechko KARADJOVtel. (359 2) 7144 264, karadjov@inrne.bas.bgAssoc. Prof. Dr. Milko MILANOVtel. (359 2) 9751025, mmilanov@inrne.bas.bg

Scientific secretary: Assoc. Prof. D.Sc. Sawa MANOFFtel. (359 2) 7144 273, smanov@inrne.bas.bg

Scientific Council: Prof. D.Sc. Ivan VANKOV, chairmantel. (359 2) 7144 634, ivankov@inrne.bas.bg

Assistant Director: Eng. Pavlin KIRATSOVtel. (359 2) 758031, (359 2) 7144 630

Chief accountant: Petyo PETKOVtel. (359 2) 754169, peter@inrne.bas.bg

Office: tel. (359 2) 7144 498; (359 2) 7144 418

Laboratories

Energy Systems AnalysisEnergy technologies systems aspects, energy-economy-environmentinteractions modeling, energy policy analysis, nuclear reactoranalysis, nuclear power plants and nuclear installations PSAD.Sc. Plamen Tzvetanov, ptzvetanov@inrne.bas.bg

Nuclear Fuel ModellingNuclear fuel behaviour, fuel rod material properties, steady state andtransient regimesD.Sc. Dancho Elenkov, elenkov@inrne.bas.bgDr. Stefka Boneva, boneva@inrne.bas.bg

Decommissioning of Nuclear FacilitiesDecommissioning, radiological characterisation, nuclear installationD.Sc. Alexander Lukyanov, lukyanov@inrne.bas.bgDr. Ivan Ruskov, ivan@inrne.bas.bg

Nuclear Fuel Performance AnalysisNuclear fuel, thermal-mechanical processes, modelling, computercodes, performance analysis, steady-state and transient regimesDr. Svetla Stefanova, svs@inrne.bas.bgGyuner Passage, passage@inrne.bas.bg

NPP Safety AnalysisNPP safety, nuclear reactors, thermohydraulic analyses, emergencyoperating proceduresDr. Pavlin Groudev, pavlinpg@inrne.bas.bg

Laboratories

Ion Implantation and Laser SpectroscopyIon implantation, laser spectroscopy, laser annealingD.Sc. lubomir Pavlov, lpavlov@inrne.bas.bg

Meusbauer Spectroscopyand Low Activities

Mossbauer spectroscopy, magnetic nanomaterials, nuclear instru-ments, low activity measurements, nuclear engineering, radioactivecontamination in nuclear reactorsD.Sc. Todor Ruskov, ruskov@inrne.bas.bgDr. Rusko Hristov, ruskovr@ee.ucr.edu

Nuclear ElectronicsNuclear instruments, detectors, high voltage power supply, low vol-tage power supply, neutron moisture meters, low activity radiometersand spectrometersD.Sc. Ivan Vankov, ivankov@inrne.bas.bgDr. Lubomir Dimitrov, ludim@inrne.bas.bg

Neutron Optics andStructure Analysis

Neutron diffraction, X-ray diffraction, structure analysis, short-rangeorder, phase transitions, shape memory alloys, martensitic transi-tionsDr. Stoyko Neov, sneov@inrne.bas.bg

Solid state neutron researchStructural and magnetic order, nanosize effects, phase transitionsand charge ordering phenomena, texture determination by MonteCarlo simulation, gamma irradiation or/and ion implantation, clusters,nanoparticles and chainsDr. Kiril Krezhov, krezhov@inrne.bas.bg

X-ray Fluorescent AnalysisXRFA, quantitative and qualitative element analysis, heavy and toxicelements, ecology, monitors - samples, soils, herbal plants, grass,radioisotope devices for technological controlEmilia Nikolova, eminik@inrne.bas.bgAri Artinyan, ariart@inrne.bas.bg

Installation, administration and main-tenance of computer networks andcomputer systems, provision ofnetwork services and Internet access,user support, cluster and GRIDcomputing, web site development.Dr. Dechko Karadjov,karadjov@inrne.bas

Basic Environmental Observatory

Nuclear Safety and Radiation ProtectionControl DepartmentDr. Slavcho Ushev, ushev@inrne.bas.bg

European Projects DepartmentDr. Boyko Vachev, vachev@inrne.bas.bg

LibraryDr. Alexandra Dumanova, dumanova@inrne.bas.bg

INRNE staff qualification:1 member of BAS, 22 professors, 59 Assoc. Prof. and 80 Assist.Prof., 25 D.Sc. and 102 Ph.D.

INRNE international relations:IAEA, UNESCO, CNRS, CNR, NASF, DFG, DAAD, JINR, CERN, RAS, ITU,IRMM, FZJ, FZR, KFZ, IRE, JPSN, CNBG, ORSEY, SACLAY, FERMILAB,INFN, NIKHEEF, ETH, MIT, DESY, KEK, IHEP, MGU, NZCHVE, HMI ANRC,IHE, NPI, EPS, ESF, DOE, BNFL, SKODA, COGEMA, SGN, BELGATOM,FRAMATOM, RADON etc.

Radioactive Waste Repository -

Novi Han

Laboratories

Radio-chemistry and Radio-pharmacyIllegal traffic of nuclear materials, radiopharmaceutical products, ma-rine ecology, radionuclides, heavy metals, geological matrixDr. Alexander Strezov, strezov@inrne.bas.bg

Radio - analytical MethodsNPP, calibration standards, iodine releases, iodine monitoring, acti-vation detectors, environment, uraniumDr. Plamen Nikolov, plamniko@inrne.bas.bgLidia Kinova, likinova@inrne.bas.bg

Radioecology and EnvironmentNuclear MethodsNuclear Energy

Control Laboratory

for Radiation Protection

Thermoluminescence dosimetry, personal dosimetry, neutrondosimetry, radon and radon progeny dosimetry, natural radioactivity,environmental monitoring, radioecologyMetodi Gelev, mguelev@inrne.bas.bg

Information Technologies Division

Moussala

Long range radionuclides, toxicelements and other pollutantstransport control, aerosolsmeasurements and spectrometry,hydro - meteorological observing,complex environmental monito-ring, global change observing,

GIS, cosmic ray physics and astrophysicsD.Sc. Jordan Stamenov, jstamen@inrne.bas.bgDr. Ivan Kirov, ikirov@inrne.bas.bg

Management of radioactive wastefrom industry, research andmedicine, transport, acceptance,storage, disposal, control and iden-tification, Novi Han Repository siteradiation control and monitoring,Novi Han Repository safetyassessment, radioactive wastedisposal - safety, advancedmethods, radioactive wastebehaviour, engineered and naturalbarriers, radionuclides migration inenvironment, behaviour of radionu-clides in aqueous systemsDr. Milko Milanov,novi.han@inrne.bas.bgDr. Milen Iovtchev,miovtchev@inrne.bas.bg

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High Energy Physics Neutron and Reactor Physics

Laboratories

High EnergyCollider, elementary particles, high energy physicsDr. Vladimir Genchev, genchev@inrne.bas.bgDr. Georgi Sultanov, sultanov@inrne.bas.bg

Particle Physics and AstrophysicsElementary particles, astrophysics, data analysis, neural networksDr. Petar Temnikov, temnikov@inrne.bas.bg

Nuclear Physics

Laboratories

Nuclear SpectroscopyExperimental and theoretical study the structure ofatomic nuclei, nuclear safety,radioecology, natural radioactivityD.Sc. Chavdar Stoyanov, stoyanov@inrne.bas.bgDr. Lachezar Kostov, lkostov@inrne.bas.bg

Nuclear ReactionsNuclear reactions, meson physics, hi-spin states, nuclear structure,exited state lifetimes Doppler-shift methods determinationDr. Todorka Kutsarova, dorak@inrne.bas.bg

Semi-Conductor DetectorsSemiconductor detectors, nuclear electronics, noise, resolution,efficiency, nuclear spectroscopyDr. Mikhail Mikhailov, mikhailov@inrne.bas.bg

Positron SpectroscopyPositron, positronium, electron-positron interaction, annihilation,radiation defects, vacances, clustersD.Sc. Troyo Troev, troev@inrne.bas.bg

Theoretical and Mathematical

Physics Laboratories

Neutron DataNeutron data, data measurement and evaluation, resonanceneutron cross sections, resonance parametersD.Sc. Natalia Janeva, pripesho@inrne.bas.bgDr Nina Koyumdjieva, anina@inrne.bas.bg

Reactor PhysicsVVER reactors, steady state and transient neutron physics analyses,spent fuel characteristics and criticality safety analyses, spent fueltransportation and storage facilities, burnup credit, reactivity meter,neutron transport calculation; reactor dosimetry; benchmarks, nuclearsafety, decommissioning of nuclear installationsDr.Tihomir Apostolov, apos@inrne.bas.bgDr. Krassimira Ilieva, krilieva@inrne.bas.bg

Neutron GeneratorGamma-spectra, burnup, fresh fuel, gammabackground, neutronspectra, thermonuclear fusionDr. Ilia Penev, ilpen@inrne.bas.bg

Laboratories

Theory of Elementary ParticlesConformal field theory, quantum groups, strings and branes,integrable systems, gravity and cosmology, particle physics beyondthe standard model, spectroscopy of exotic atoms and molecules ofthe light elements, squeezed statesDr. Emil Nissimov; nissimov@inrne.bas.bg

Mathematical ModellingFew-body problem, åxotic atoms and molecules, computationalmethods, quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, approxima-tion of experimental dataDr. Dimitar Bakalov, dbakalov@inrne.bas.bgDr. Nina Bogdanova, nibogd@inrne.bas.bg

Solitons, Coherency, and GeometrySolitons equations, soliton relations, optical solitons, entangleduncertainty relations, uncertainty inequalities, coherent states,squeezed states, differentiable manifolds with affine connections andmetrics, theoretical gravitational physics, deviation equations, energy-momentum tensors, soliton-like solutions in extendedelectrodynamicsD.Sc. Vladimir Gerdjikov, gerjikov@inrne.bas.bgD.Sc. Sawa Manoff, smanov@inrne.bas.bg

Theoretical Nuclear PhysicsNucleon-nucleon correlation effects on nuclear structure andreactions, nuclear physics field theory and algebraic methods, exoticnuclei and few-body systems, density functional theory for many-fermion systemsD.Sc. Vladimir Nikolaev, nikolai@spnet.netDr. Sevdalina Dimitrova, sevdim@inrne.bas.bg

IRT 2000 nuclear reactor partial decommissioning and reconstructioninto a 200 kW low power facility, nuclear science and technology transfer,nuclear medecine application, NAA, education and qualification centreDr.Tihomir Apostolov, apos@inrne.bas.bgEngineer Dimitar Drenski, drenski@inrne.bas.bg

Nuclear Scientific and

Experimental Centre