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Clementine Fast Reactor

Clementine Fast Reactor, a research reactor (fast) in Los Alamos, NM, United States, with 25 kW of thermal power, operated by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Decommissioned, first critical in 1946.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 4 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). 15 fast research reactors remain in operation today across 6 countries. Its declared uses include nuclear data measurements.

Country

United States

City

Los Alamos, NM

Type

Fast

Thermal power

25 kW

Operator

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1946

Purpose

Nuclear data

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