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TRIGA II Pitesti - SS Core

TRIGA II Pitesti - SS Core, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Pitesti, Romania, with 14 MW of thermal power, operated by Technologies for Nuclear Energy State Owned Company (RATEN). Operating, first critical in 1980.

It is the most powerful research reactor in Romania, of the 2 currently operating. It went critical 23 years after the first research reactor in Romania, VVR-S Bucharest (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

Romania

City

Pitesti

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

14 MW

Operator

Technologies for Nuclear Energy State Owned Company (RATEN)

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1980

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron scattering, neutron radiography, training, activation analysis, innovative research, materials testing

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