China · Beijing · 39.907, 116.397 (approximate location)

CARR

CARR, a research reactor (tank) in Beijing, China, with 60 MW of thermal power, operated by Dept. of Reactor Engineering, Research and Design. Operating, first critical in 2010.

By thermal power it ranks third among the 18 research reactors operating in China. It went critical 52 years after the first research reactor in China, HWRR-II (1958). It is one of 36 tank-type reactors operating worldwide, spread across 23 countries. It is one of 2 research reactors in 1 country that CNNC / CIAE designed or built.

Country

China

City

Beijing

Type

Tank

Thermal power

60 MW

Operator

Dept. of Reactor Engineering, Research and Design

Design and construction

Designed and built by CIAE (CNNC)

Status

Operating

First criticality

2010

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron scattering, neutron radiography, transmutation, activation analysis, materials testing

See also: every research reactor in China · How research reactors work · every reactor by CNNC / CIAE