China · Chengdu · 30.660, 104.063 (approximate location)

HFETR Critical

HFETR Critical, a research reactor (critical assembly) in Chengdu, China, operated by Nuclear Power Institute of China. Operating, first critical in 1979.

It is one of the 18 research reactors operating in China, one of 2 zero-power assemblies among them. It went critical 21 years after the first research reactor in China, HWRR-II (1958). It is one of 44 critical assemblies operating worldwide, spread across 12 countries. Its declared uses include nuclear data measurements.

Country

China

City

Chengdu

Type

Critical assembly

Thermal power

critical

Operator

Nuclear Power Institute of China

Status

Operating

First criticality

1979

Purpose

Nuclear data

See also: every research reactor in China · How research reactors work