Interesting how there are only 5 places on Google that mention "Kolsky Research Institute" at all. And all of them reference this exact story: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&clien...

Smells fishy

It probably doesn't have an official name for itself in English. "Kolsky" means "of Kola" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Peninsula), and there are several ways of transliterating it into English. "Research Institute", too, could be one of several things, and each could have a different English translation. It would take a while to try all possible combinations in Google and see if something comes up, but that nothing comes up for "Kolsky Research Institute" means nothing.

So does anyone know enough Russian to try to see if there is a paper published in Russian?

I'm hoping it's real. And being real, I hope it can be cheaply obtained and stays that way.

Maybe soon we'll be able to use nuclear power as much as we want. Once we start recycling leftover radioactive wastes, fission becomes sustainable enough.