Brazil · Belo Horizonte · -19.917, -43.933 (approximate location)

IPR-R1

IPR-R1, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, with 100 kW of thermal power, operated by Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear. Operating, first critical in 1960.

By thermal power it ranks second among the 4 research reactors operating in Brazil. It went critical 3 years after the first research reactor in Brazil, IEA-R1 (1957). It is one of 36 TRIGA reactors operating worldwide, spread across 17 countries. It is one of 65 research reactors in 20 countries that General Atomics designed or built.

Country

Brazil

City

Belo Horizonte

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

100 kW

Operator

Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1960

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron radiography, teaching, training, activation analysis

See also: every research reactor in Brazil · How research reactors work · every reactor by General Atomics