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TVR

TVR, a research reactor (tank) in Moscow, Russia, with 2.5 MW of thermal power, operated by SSCRF Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Exp. Physics. Shut down, first critical in 1949.

It was one of the 123 research reactors Russia has had; 57 remain in operation today. It went critical 3 years after the first research reactor in Russia, F-1 (1946). 36 tank-type reactors remain in operation today across 23 countries.

Country

Russia

City

Moscow

Type

Tank

Thermal power

2.5 MW

Operator

SSCRF Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Exp. Physics

Status

Shut down

First criticality

1949

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