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YAGUAR (NHUAR)

YAGUAR (NHUAR), a research reactor (homogeneous) in Chelyabinsk, Russia, with 4 kW of thermal power, operated by Russian Federal Nuclear Centre VNIITF. Operating, first critical in 1988.

By thermal power it ranks 28th among the 57 research reactors operating in Russia. It went critical 42 years after the first research reactor in Russia, F-1 (1946). It is one of 15 homogeneous reactors operating worldwide, spread across 6 countries. Its declared uses include materials testing.

Country

Russia

City

Chelyabinsk

Type

Homogeneous

Thermal power

4 kW

Operator

Russian Federal Nuclear Centre VNIITF

Status

Operating

First criticality

1988

Purpose

Materials testing

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