United States · Buffalo, NY · 42.931, -78.812 (approximate location)

BMRC SUNY at Buffalo

BMRC SUNY at Buffalo, a research reactor (pool) in Buffalo, NY, United States, with 2 MW of thermal power, operated by SUNY-Buffalo Medical Research Center. Shut down, first critical in 1964.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 22 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). 48 pool-type reactors remain in operation today across 28 countries.

Country

United States

City

Buffalo, NY

Type

Pool

Thermal power

2 MW

Operator

SUNY-Buffalo Medical Research Center

Status

Shut down

First criticality

1964

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