Greece · Thessaloniki · 40.640, 22.936 (approximate location)

GR-B Subcritical Assembly

GR-B Subcritical Assembly, a research reactor (subcritical assembly) in Thessaloniki, Greece, operated by Atomic and Nuclear Physics Laboratory. Operating, first critical in 1971.

It is one of the 2 research reactors operating in Greece, the only zero-power assembly among them. It went critical 10 years after the first research reactor in Greece, Demokritos (GRR-1) (1961). It is one of 20 subcritical assemblies operating worldwide, spread across 13 countries. Its declared uses include teaching, activation analysis, nuclear data measurements and materials testing.

Country

Greece

City

Thessaloniki

Type

Subcritical assembly

Thermal power

critical

Operator

Atomic and Nuclear Physics Laboratory

Status

Operating

First criticality

1971

Purpose

Teaching, activation analysis, nuclear data, materials testing

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