China · Beijing · 39.907, 116.397 (approximate location)

SPR IAE

SPR IAE, a research reactor (pool) in Beijing, China, with 3.5 MW of thermal power, operated by Department of Reactor Engineering & Technology. Operating, first critical in 1964.

By thermal power it ranks eighth among the 18 research reactors operating in China. It went critical 6 years after the first research reactor in China, HWRR-II (1958). It is one of 48 pool-type reactors operating worldwide, spread across 28 countries. Its declared uses include isotope production, silicon doping, transmutation and gemstone irradiation.

Country

China

City

Beijing

Type

Pool

Thermal power

3.5 MW

Operator

Department of Reactor Engineering & Technology

Status

Operating

First criticality

1964

Purpose

Isotope production, silicon doping, transmutation, gemstone irradiation, training, activation analysis, geochronology, materials testing

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