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NSRR

NSRR, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Tokai, Japan, with 300 kW of thermal power, operated by Tokai Research Establishment. Operating, first critical in 1975.

By thermal power it ranks fifth among the 9 research reactors operating in Japan. It went critical 18 years after the first research reactor in Japan, JRR-1 (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

Japan

City

Tokai

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

300 kW

Operator

Tokai Research Establishment

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1975

Purpose

Materials testing

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