United States · Midland, MI · 43.629, -84.233 (approximate location)

Dow TRIGA

Dow TRIGA, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Midland, MI, United States, with 300 kW of thermal power, operated by Dow Chemical Company Michigan Operations. Operating, first critical in 1967.

It is one of the 48 research reactors operating in the United States. It went critical 25 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). It is one of 36 TRIGA reactors operating worldwide, spread across 17 countries. It is one of 65 research reactors in 20 countries that General Atomics designed or built.

Country

United States

City

Midland, MI

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

300 kW

Operator

Dow Chemical Company Michigan Operations

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1967

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron radiography, activation analysis, materials testing

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