Argentina · San Carlos de Bariloche · -41.121, -71.414

RA-6

RA-6, a research reactor (pool) in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, with 1 MW of thermal power, operated by Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA) – Centro Atómico Bariloche. Operating, first critical in 1982.

By thermal power it ranks second among the 5 research reactors operating in Argentina. It went critical 24 years after the first research reactor in Argentina, RA-1 Enrico Fermi Reactor (1958). It is one of 48 pool-type reactors operating worldwide, spread across 28 countries. It is one of 9 research reactors in 7 countries that INVAP designed or built.

Country

Argentina

City

San Carlos de Bariloche

Type

Pool

Thermal power

1 MW

Operator

Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA) – Centro Atómico Bariloche

Design and construction

Designed and built by INVAP

Status

Operating

First criticality

1982

Purpose

Teaching, training, isotope production, neutron radiography, activation analysis, neutron capture therapy (BNCT), research

See also: every research reactor in Argentina · How research reactors work · every reactor by INVAP