United States · Ballston Spa, NY · 43.007, -73.851 (approximate location)

D1G Destroyer Prototype

D1G Destroyer Prototype, a research reactor (other) in Ballston Spa, NY, United States, operated by Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation. Decommissioned, first critical in 1961.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 19 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942).

Country

United States

City

Ballston Spa, NY

Type

Other

Thermal power

critical

Operator

Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1961

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