United States · Silver Spring, MD · 38.985, -77.113

DORF TRIGA Mark F

DORF TRIGA Mark F, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Silver Spring, MD, United States, with 250 kW of thermal power, operated by Harry Diamond Laboratories. 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). 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

Silver Spring, MD

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

250 kW

Operator

Harry Diamond Laboratories

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1961

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron radiography, activation analysis

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