United States · Bethesda, MD · 39.003, -77.089

AFRRI TRIGA

AFRRI TRIGA, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Bethesda, MD, United States, with 1 MW of thermal power, operated by Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute. Operating, first critical in 1962.

It is one of the 48 research reactors operating in the United States. It went critical 20 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). 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

United States

City

Bethesda, MD

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

1 MW

Operator

Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1962

Purpose

Isotope production, teaching, training, activation analysis, materials testing

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