United States · Fort Worth, TX · 32.756, -97.332 (approximate location)

ASTR Aerospace Systems Test

ASTR Aerospace Systems Test, a research reactor (tank) in Fort Worth, TX, United States, with 10 MW of thermal power, operated by U.S. Air Force Nuclear Aerospace Research Facility. 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). 36 tank-type reactors remain in operation today across 23 countries.

Country

United States

City

Fort Worth, TX

Type

Tank

Thermal power

10 MW

Operator

U.S. Air Force Nuclear Aerospace Research Facility

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1954

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