Italy · Rome · 41.893, 12.483 (approximate location)

TRIGA RC-1

TRIGA RC-1, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Rome, Italy, with 1 MW of thermal power, operated by CNEN Casaccia Research Centre. Operating, first critical in 1960.

It is the most powerful research reactor in Italy, of the 5 currently operating. It went critical 1 year after the first research reactor in Italy, Avogadro RS-1 (1959). 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

Italy

City

Rome

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

1 MW

Operator

CNEN Casaccia Research Centre

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1960

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron radiography, teaching, training, activation analysis

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