Japan · Yokosuka · 35.281, 139.672 (approximate location)

Rikkyo University Research Reactor (RUR)

Rikkyo University Research Reactor (RUR), a research reactor (tRIGA) in Yokosuka, Japan, with 100 kW of thermal power, operated by Institute for Atomic Energy. Shut down, first critical in 1961.

It was one of the 27 research reactors Japan has had; 9 remain in operation today. It went critical 4 years after the first research reactor in Japan, JRR-1 (1957). 36 TRIGA reactors remain in operation today across 17 countries. It is one of 65 research reactors in 20 countries that General Atomics designed or built.

Country

Japan

City

Yokosuka

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

100 kW

Operator

Institute for Atomic Energy

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Shut down

First criticality

1961

Purpose

Neutron radiography, teaching, training, activation analysis, geochronology

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