United States · Denver · 39.739, -104.985 (approximate location)

GSTR US Geological Survey

GSTR US Geological Survey, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Denver, United States, with 1 MW of thermal power, operated by U.S. Department of the Interior. Operating, first critical in 1969.

It is one of the 48 research reactors operating in the United States. It went critical 27 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

Denver

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

1 MW

Operator

U.S. Department of the Interior

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1969

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron radiography, teaching, training, activation analysis, geochronology

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