NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTERS IN POLAND

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2011
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• Publication Date: January 11, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This moterlal oontaina Information affecting the ;&U=al Defense of the Unltod Statsi within the mewing of the I
18, U.B.C. Seas. 793 and M. the tranamielon or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthoslaed
t, Title
Dees= L Prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY Poland
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REPORT
SUBJECT Nuclear Research Centers in Poland DATE DISTR. JAN 1962
NO. PAGES 1
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report containing general information on the following
electronic and industrial de the
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Nuclear Research, the Swierk n
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searchNcenter, the t akor
center, and Polish electronics research in general.
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1. The alaetronie drparlassat is a braneb of the aetuitp of the Mus es? Aosoaroh
center, of Warta . It is lausid in tenpas'arw buildings whioh are loeated sLsng
the Vistula Auer abort few or five kiloestsrs frow Warsaw In the opposite,
dirootion lion iwiim* ($ A ). The direster of the elaetroaies depart--
Mat is s ianeer d. Nosaski. At lbs praasat tins this dopaarMbMat is a part or
the nuelaar osginssring seetioa, but in the sear fatwre it will be ttaasterr d
to the uteloarr physics seetioa. When this t saafoer is ^w-de the eleetronios
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d.parbMat will be moved to $wierk.
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for geological, asdisal -d ailita*7 was. It is also with aad _ in building 113 ooi esters for swxtreas: metetie flux eemtters MA
ants 'tiot
instrmsents for asolesi' plates for aaW stie apestreotors* ass. 3astruaoats
are osnatruoted with the .rllabos*tiaa at the Soviet eiator at lubwa whieh
takes ease of the optical pdw of the work. '!ho ieataatiU deparMNat of
Warsaw also works eloaalT with the sleet rnie cutter of the Iastitate at Srlkow.
Multi -eheaol analysers on also being po**Aesd h the elsstrornier depsa taoat.
at Mil" ohs ?t ft r rra rwtur AM* awes
4. The in4astrial deparMM^tt is located is the $oiwe building situated In tlse
dowstesos saetioa of Warsaw. This dsparwast esapleys about 50 vere"* who went
oa taraadenxisg the patrstsltpos devsleped by the elaeiposie rsasarah labsrsterios
of Warsaw and Krakow into iststcutm tl$ to, indxtstrirtl was. It is high-lawl
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The Swiork Eleotromie Canter
5. This center is located about 40 kilomet*.southeast of Warsaw and is the most
important Polish nuclear res aeatw. This cantor has a Soviet rescereh
reactor of the %o typo with of about 20 elements oentaining 50X1-HUM
enriched u ranimm. This ream is. Plans for the construstion
of a reactor of ssro power are now under study at the I wlerk Center. This
reactor will serve as a medal for the oatastruotion of a 20 uooftatt remoter.
Both of the letter two reactors will be used for researab purposes.
6. A ten mega-eleotro slt linear accelerator for protons is also uAoder construction.
Construetian of a Van do Graf accelerator was begun is 1955. At first We
accelerator gays only negative results, but it has new begun to function and to
permit the study of aooosssry prebleme. Two neutron selectors have also been
recently constructed for the reneareb retetsr at Swierk. Out of these selectors
is for slow neutrons of from one to 100 o3.setroaolts, and the other is for rapid
neutrons of from 25 to 10,000 elootr.velts?
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7. This seater is under the direction of Professor A. Niiossaaki, and it
employs about 300 persme, laeludiag both met and teshnioiaas. Although
smaller than the Warsaw Center it appears to be better a raised. The ip!Welling
fires behind this caster is Ii.Aeodhsit i. who bus aateseded in ostablishlsg
an autenoaaous status for the Krakow Center via-a-vin the principal cotter in
8. Most of the rossarsh being eaadtaoted at the Krakow Canter is directed turd
low eaer?- nuclear reactions, nuclear speoltsaow r and nnuelcas mawpaetic
resaasair. At the present tiros thaft are tMO syolotrons In spW'atien at the
center. Else of these cyclotrons is are to on. and a half map-Olootrovolts and
was built in' Polsadj the other is of Soviet construction and to 10/0 sega-
olaotrovslts. The Soviet cyclotron is very lsrp and its equipment is vexy
couplets. Tc-wc.~
g. The Krakow Canter has the rimake use or two woorimmusal sbanwIs of the
reactor at the $wierk Cent't foot agrrn that are net oerostod with'nuclear
noering, but Mbish hare to do with eagsgr asatal and solid p1waics. At the
present tine tris Cntror is n the adawk center's rerreter for mweri-
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for neutrons eta* of the psis-e astie iltftiaalem at amtr_MS. his is a
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10. There is no tstasloar reactor at Krakow, but there we plans to install me in
the future. This reactor will be built at the #wieirk Center. There is,
however, so., opposition to this profit on the Of the dirostors of the
Krakow Osnter, lines it would di stuurb the present research projects be,tA j
oosvd meted there. The Krakow Cotter is well e9uippedt as tar as 1h* 0l0etVos4s
field is oomoos ns*. Ow equiptwt was in the a m~$ s of labors-
tory, and it olio has a well-+4uipped plant for the es strwstien of all the
acassssryr pasts.
11. It does not appear that the Nkskow Center is in direst contact with the Aubna
Institute of ltuaelsar Ksseavsh. inose ssitnti sts and teobauelopists have not
visited this .enter for some time.
12. Following is a list of some of the Polish scientists who are presently working
at the Krakow Oenter t
a. Sawicki (flat), riultiahaMael time aaalyterst
b. ltyssard mayor, nultisht meet aagrlitwds analysert
o. Befimen (fnu), naKaetic trio as.uy,
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d. Itsfan Waytswios, fast pulse tieohsic, fast awltiahtiue01 amplitude =61
e. Starsynski (fnu), automatic inspection of the tacos in the filat
f. Bursyaski (fan), vurttrsnt atabiliserst
g. Lsssosynaki (fait), voltage stabilisers for Van do draft
h. Keller (fttnu), radiation dstsoterst
i. Katkiewios (iinu), radiation dsteotsrst
J. 0&owaaki (fmi), syaebrsssops for ssintilator pulses.
Polish l sotranle ttesearab is ROME&
13. Polish eleetroula ressarsh oentsrs work wAor serious huAlsaps whteh are
prinsipally eased by'the lack of a norsal source of reply of melded
elastroois sonpepsnt$. !Mess materials lire not pr sdussd in Poland but mast
be imported entirely from other ewatririss. Th WO ressivsd from the UUP
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after proloagsd do14zs, and they comet be imported fraMe the Meat because
of the ^hortaage ' of fereigai o1 . Z'loetrsaie asisuiate a are not being
built in Poland. Uwe to a ealstialatisw seater in Warsaw scam is egeipped
with a Soviet ealsu3stov, and all problem W woo solutiaer require the use
of a ealeulater east be handled in the W atrsaw 400*er.
14. The oatire pregm of the Polish rssssreh eaaaters fits into the gsaeral
established by the seientifio as---'Asians of the Basta *1ropsaa
oomtries, sad, for all prastieal purposes, it is subject to $.viot control.
The sooperatien between the Polish emortme mad the * is presaertly Uaitad
to the sanding Of Polish teeheisi OW to the ihibss Instltuto of Nuclear
Aessarsh for training sad briiflag and to iaportiag Soviet sleotrsnie and
nuclear equipment into Poland*
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