United States · Berkeley, CA · 37.870, -122.268 (approximate location)

BRR UC Berkeley

BRR UC Berkeley, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Berkeley, CA, United States, with 1 MW of thermal power, operated by University of California, Nuclear Engineering Dept. Decommissioned, first critical in 1966.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 24 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). 36 TRIGA reactors remain in operation today across 17 countries. It is one of 65 research reactors in 20 countries that General Atomics designed or built.

Country

United States

City

Berkeley, CA

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

1 MW

Operator

University of California, Nuclear Engineering Dept

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1966

Purpose

Isotope production, teaching, materials testing

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