Japan · Osaka · 34.694, 135.502 (approximate location)

KUCA

KUCA, a research reactor (critical assembly) in Osaka, Japan, with 100 W of thermal power, operated by Research Reactor Institute. Operating, first critical in 1974.

By thermal power it ranks eighth among the 9 research reactors operating in Japan. It went critical 17 years after the first research reactor in Japan, JRR-1 (1957). It is one of 44 critical assemblies operating worldwide, spread across 12 countries. Its declared uses include teaching.

Country

Japan

City

Osaka

Type

Critical assembly

Thermal power

100 W

Operator

Research Reactor Institute

Status

Operating

First criticality

1974

Purpose

Teaching

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