Director

Candidate of Agricultural Sciences

   Dmytrii Holiaka

(38044) 526-12-46 golyaka.d@gmail.com

Professor, Dr.Sc. (Radiobiology), Ph.D. (Physics and Mathematics)

Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Honorary doctorate degree at NMBU

   Valery Kashparov

(38044) 526-12-46 uiar.vak@gmail.com

Candidate of Biology

Sviatoslav Levchuk

(38044) 526-24-44 slavalevchuk64@gmail.com

	Principal research directions :
*	Physical and chemical characteristics of the radioactive fallout
*	Radionuclides migration in the Environment
*	Evaluation of the Environmental impacts of the nuclear fuel cycle enterprises
*	Reconstruction of conditions of the ChNPP accident
*	Radiological monitoring the agricultural production
*	Mapping the 30-km ChNPP zone territory contamination with radionuclides of strontium and TUE
*	Parameterization and verification of the models of the radionuclides migration in the Environment, prognosis of the dynamics of the radioecological situation in the contaminated areas
*	Assessment of the doses to the human and animal organisms
*	Development of the methodology and conducting the agroecological monitoring
*	Ecological evaluation of the conditions of various branches of the stock-breeding in the radioactive contaminated territories.
*	Evaluation of efficiency of the radiosorbents in laboratory and industrial conditions
*	Assessment of radiocesium activity in agricultural animals at various stages of breeding of the cattle
*	Development of the forage admixtures on the basis of cesium sorbents
*	Evaluation and prognosis of the ecological and radioecological situation
*	Development of the recommendations for the plant growing in the technogenic impacted zones in order to guarantee the ecologically clean agricultural production in the contaminated with radionuclides and heavy metals territories of Ukraine.

Technik potential of the institute:

Spectrometric and radiometric equipment:

· g-spectrometer "ADCAM-300" with 2 detectors GEM-30185, manufactured by EG&G ORTEC (USA). MDK<5 Bq/kg for ¹³⁷Cs;

· a-spectrometer "Soloist-U0300" with 2 detectors, manufactured by EG&G ORTEC (USA);

· a-b-radiometer CANBERRA-2400 (USA). MDA - < 4 Bq/kg for ⁹⁰Sr;

· b-spectrometers (AKP, Ukraine) - MDA - < 1 Bq for ⁹⁰Y;;

· portable scintillation g-spectrometer on the base of analyzer CANBERRA-10Plus

Analysis of chemical elements in the samples:

• atomic-absorption spectrophotometer VARIAN

• mass spectrometer NexION 2000B (PerkinElmer, USA)

Radiochemical laboratory with the full set of necessary equipment and reagents

Transport:

·  two mobile radiological laboratories with g-spectrometers equipped with scintillation detectors;

· sampling equipment.