As part of the implementation of Atomic Project No. 1, the Faculty of Physics and Technology (FTF) was established at Tomsk Polytechnic Institute (TPI) to train specialists for the country’s atomic industry. However, the history of the FTF actually began several years earlier, in the fall of 1946, when, at the initiative of the TPI rector, a group of researchers was organized to develop an induction accelerator – the betatron.

Based on three laboratories of the PTF, the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, Electronics, and Automation was created. In 1975, it was renamed the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP). The director of the INP was Ivan Petrovich Chuchalin, a graduate of the PTF in 1951.

The commissioning of the IRT-T research reactor. Currently, it is the only reactor of this profile east of the Ural Mountains.

The Research Institutes of Introspection and Radiation Physics were established at the PTF. In 1968, based on the laboratories of introspection and television, and the departments of industrial electronics and experimental physics, the Research Institute of Electronic Introspection was created. The director became Vladimir Ivanovich Gorbunov, a graduate of the PTF in 1952.

The Physical and Technical Faculty, the Institute of Nuclear Physics, and the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics were merged into the Physical and Technical Institute (PTI).

Based on the Physics and Technology Institute, the School of Nuclear Technology Engineering () was established. Today, SNTE, building on its unique expertise and scientific developments, continues to fulfill its strategic mission of training highly qualified specialists for nuclear industry facilities in Russia and abroad.