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FRMZ

FRMZ, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Mainz, Germany, with 100 kW of thermal power, operated by Institut für Kernchemie. Operating, first critical in 1965.

By thermal power it ranks second among the 6 research reactors operating in Germany. It went critical 8 years after the first research reactor in Germany, FRM (1957). It is one of 36 TRIGA reactors operating worldwide, spread across 17 countries. It is one of 65 research reactors in 20 countries that General Atomics designed or built.

Country

Germany

City

Mainz

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

100 kW

Operator

Institut für Kernchemie

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1965

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron scattering, neutron radiography, teaching, training, activation analysis, neutron capture therapy

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