The National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (“KPI named after Igor Sikorsky”) is an institution of higher engineering education founded in Kyiv in 1898. Today it is one of the largest universities in Ukraine in terms of the number of students with a wide range of specialties and educational programs for training technical and humanities specialists
The University includes the Educational and Scientific Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Energy, KPI named after Igor Sikorsky. The scientific direction of the Institute is nuclear safety. the field of research and development – physical protection, internal threat, security culture.
The activities of the Educational and Research Institute of Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Energy will be carried out on the basis of existing departments, as well as on the basis of new divisions:
- Educational and Research Centre of NPP’s Reliability and Safety (jointly with the State Enterprise «National Nuclear Energy Generating Company «Energoatom» and the State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety);
- Educational and Scientific Center for Nuclear Security Support (jointly with the Institute of Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine);
- Scientific and Research (Experimental) Laboratory of Processes in Energy Equipment
- Educational and Scientific Laboratory of Computer Modelling in Energy
- Educational and Scientific Laboratory of Methodological Support of Internet Technologies in Energy
The institute has 5 departments, one of which is the Department of Nuclear Energy.
Students get physico-mathematical, computer and engineering training, knowledge of foreign languages and ability to work with modern software codes.
Students are trained to operate nuclear power plants, model neutron-physical and thermohydraulic processes in nuclear power plant equipment and solve problems of reliability and safety of nuclear power facilities.
Students study modern software products and programming languages: AutoCAD, Inventor, MathCad, ANSYS-Fluent, SolidWorks and Python, C++.
Key competencies of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
- Design and assessment of physical protection systems;
- Prevention and protection against internal threats;
- Management of emergency and crisis situations at nuclear installations;
- Nuclear safety culture
Research directions of the Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Energy, which are close to the directions of the Euratom Program
- Nuclear fission, safety and radiation protection;
- Nuclear safety;
- Physical protection systems;
- Vulnerability assessment and risk management of nuclear facilities;
- Internal threat.
The main research infrastructure
The center includes a computer simulation laboratory and a complex of equipment for physical protection systems
Key experts Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Energy of National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
- Tymofiy Bibik, PhD, scientific supervisor.
- Ivan Ostapenko, director.
- Oleksandr Koloskov, specialist in information technologies
Publications
- 1. T.V. Bibik, E.V. Nowakowski, I.V. Gapchinska. Research possibilities of using sensors current control of radiation during the transport of radioactive materials // Energy: economics, technology, ecology, scientific journal. № 2 (44), (2016).
- 2. B.V. Kaidyk, T.V. Bibik, V.I. Gavryliuk, S.S. Drapey, O.P. Romanova. Statistical methods for performance testing of the technical means of the physical protection system // Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy. 20(1) (2019) 90 – 95.
- 3. Adam Williams, Tymofii Bibik. Lessons Learned from Developing the Graduate Nuclear Security Curriculum at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Primary // International Conference on Nuclear Security: Sustaining and Strengthening Efforts (ICONS 2020).
- 4. Adam Williams, Tymofii Bibik. Overview, Operational Results, & Opportunities of the Graduate Nuclear Security Program at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute // INMM/ESARDA Joint Annual Meeting (2021).
- 5. Opiatiuk V.V., Kozlov I.L., Skalozubov V.I., Ostapenko I.A. Study of Parametric Interactions in the Nuclear Reactor Control with Feedback. ENERGETIKA. Proceedings of CIS higher education institutions and power engineering associations. 2021;64(6):517-524. https://doi.org/10.21122/1029-7448-2021-64-6-517-524
International projects of the Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Energy, KPI named after Igor Sikorsky in the Euratom Program
- Project of international technical assistance «Implementation of Specialization «Nuclear security»»
- Contract number: Р710 – Customer: National Nuclear Security Administration/ US Department of Energy – deadline: 12.12.2017 – 12.04.2020.
Contact Information:
ADRESS: 37, Prosp. Peremohy, Kyiv, Ukraine, 03056
Ivan Ostapenko
E-MAIL: ivan.a.ostapenko@gmail.com
TEL: +380673900725
National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
EU framework program PIC: 998145715
