Japan · Tokai-mura · 36.473, 140.566 (approximate location)

SCA

SCA, a research reactor (critical assembly) in Tokai-mura, Japan, with 200 W of thermal power, operated by Tokai Research and Development Center. Decommissioned, first critical in 1966.

It was one of the 27 research reactors Japan has had; 9 remain in operation today. It went critical 9 years after the first research reactor in Japan, JRR-1 (1957). 44 critical assemblies remain in operation today across 12 countries.

Country

Japan

City

Tokai-mura

Type

Critical assembly

Thermal power

200 W

Operator

Tokai Research and Development Center

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1966

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