Japan · Kawasaki · 35.531, 139.703 (approximate location)

Toshiba NCA

Toshiba NCA, a research reactor (critical assembly) in Kawasaki, Japan, with 200 W of thermal power, operated by Nuclear Engineering Laboratory. Temporary shutdown, first critical in 1963.

It is one of the 9 research reactors operating in Japan. It went critical 6 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 materials testing.

Country

Japan

City

Kawasaki

Type

Critical assembly

Thermal power

200 W

Operator

Nuclear Engineering Laboratory

Status

Temporary shutdown

First criticality

1963

Purpose

Materials testing

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