United States · Oak Ridge, TN · 35.930, -84.310

ARE Aircraft Reactor Experiment

ARE Aircraft Reactor Experiment, a research reactor (other) in Oak Ridge, TN, United States, with 2.5 MW of thermal power, operated by Union Carbide Nuclear Corporation. Decommissioned, first critical in 1954.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 12 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). Its declared uses include research, development and experiments.

Country

United States

City

Oak Ridge, TN

Type

Other

Thermal power

2.5 MW

Operator

Union Carbide Nuclear Corporation

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1954

Purpose

Research, development, and experiments

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