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FRM II

FRM II, a research reactor (pool) in Garching bei München, Germany, with 20 MW of thermal power, operated by Technical University of Munich. Temporary shutdown, first critical in 2004.

It is the most powerful research reactor in Germany, of the 6 currently operating. It went critical 47 years after the first research reactor in Germany, FRM (1957). It is one of 48 pool-type reactors operating worldwide, spread across 28 countries. Its declared uses include isotope production, neutron scattering, neutron radiography and silicon doping.

Country

Germany

City

Garching bei München

Type

Pool

Thermal power

20 MW

Operator

Technical University of Munich

Status

Temporary shutdown

First criticality

2004

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron scattering, neutron radiography, silicon doping, transmutation, teaching, training, activation analysis, geochronology, neutron capture therapy, nuclear data

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