China · Shanghai · 31.233, 121.469 (approximate location)

MNSR-SH

MNSR-SH, a research reactor (tank) in Shanghai, China, with 30 kW of thermal power, operated by Shanghai Institute of Measurement and Testing Technology. Decommissioned, first critical in 1991.

It was one of the 22 research reactors China has had; 18 remain in operation today. It went critical 33 years after the first research reactor in China, HWRR-II (1958). 36 tank-type reactors remain in operation today across 23 countries. Its declared uses include activation analysis.

Country

China

City

Shanghai

Type

Tank

Thermal power

30 kW

Operator

Shanghai Institute of Measurement and Testing Technology

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1991

Purpose

Activation analysis

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