Since 2001 Alexander Elokhin has been working at Scientific and Engineering Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (SEC NRS) as Laboratory head of the Radiation Safety division. He is the leader for scientific programs dealing with radiation control of WWER-1500 reactors (“Development of High-Temperature Gamma-Sensor for Determination of Power Rate of Radioactive Emissions of NPPs with WWER-1500 Reactors”) and with Federal Target Program (FTP) of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation (“Minimisation of Risks and Mitigation of Consequences of Natural and Anthropogenic Nature in the Russian Federation up to 2010”). Development of an unmanned dosimetry complex used as an independent tool for radiation emission control in the conditions of radiation accidents at NPPs and other nuclear facilities is carried out within the abovementioned framework. Alexander developed the project for assessment of the consequences of a radiation accident in the containment of WWER-1500 reactors and the computer program based on the Monte-Carlo Method.

In 2004 Alexander was the scientific leader of the project ‘Development of sensor defining capacity of nuclear emissions in NPP chimney stacks. The project is a collaborative effort between SEC NRS and JSC ”Expertcent” within the government contract with the Federal Atomic Energy Agency. As a result of this collaboration the above mentioned sensor was developed on the basis of Alexander’s invention.

Since 2005 Alexander has been extensive educational work preparing young specialists for employment at SEC NRS. Being a professor at MEPhI, he is a lecturer in Ecology, Automated Design Systems Theory (ADST), as well as Nuclear Power Plants Radiation Monitoring. He supervises yearly essays for forth and fifth year students, pre-thesis practices and theses for graduating students. He trained 10 specialists within 5 years, including one Masters Student. At present he is the scientific adviser for two postgraduate students and a fifth-year student at MEPhI.

Alexander was awarded for his personal contribution into the elimination of the Chernobyl disaster consequences by the Federal Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia and a letter of commendation for high achievements in scientific and engineering support to nuclear safety assurance. He is a veteran of nuclear energy and nuclear industry.

Currently, the list of his studies consists of more than a two hundred works published in the leading Russian and international science journals. Among those works are articles, conference reports, collected scientific works, invention certificates and patents for his inventions (12 items).

Recently, Alexander and his colleagues at the Radiation Safety Division (where Alexander is the Laboratory Head since 2001) has prepared a Safety Guide “Methodological Recommendations for Accuracy Increase in Prognostic Assessments of Properties of Radiation Pollution of the Environment and Personnel and Public Radiation Burden”. He is also leading the project for methods for the control of radioactive pollution of the environment as a result of anthropogenic radiation accidents at nuclear facilities and practical use of the unmanned dosimetry complex (UDC). This project is performed by MEPhI employees within the FTP titled “Scientific and Educational Staff in Russia’s Innovation between 2009 and 2013”.