The State Scientific Institution “Joint Institute for Energy and Nuclear Research – Sosny” of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is the leading scientific organization in the country dealing with the safe use of atomic energy, the development of nuclear and radiation technologies.

Main activities:
- – nuclear energy, scientific support for the development of nuclear energy in the Republic of Belarus;
- – nuclear and radiation technologies in the interests of various sectors of the economy of the Republic of Belarus;
- – research and development of technologies of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel management;
- – fundamental and applied research in the field of nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, high energy physics.