United States · Las Vegas, NV · 36.167, -115.149 (approximate location)

Godiva IV

Godiva IV, a research reactor (critical assembly) in Las Vegas, NV, United States, with 1 kW of thermal power, operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC. 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 44 critical assemblies operating worldwide, spread across 12 countries. Its declared uses include nuclear data measurements.

Country

United States

City

Las Vegas, NV

Type

Critical assembly

Thermal power

1 kW

Operator

Los Alamos National Security, LLC

Status

Operating

First criticality

1967

Purpose

Nuclear data

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