United States · Fort Worth, TX · 32.756, -97.332 (approximate location)

GTR Ground Test Reactor

GTR Ground Test Reactor, a research reactor (pool) in Fort Worth, TX, United States, with 10 MW of thermal power, operated by Nuclear Aerospace Research Facility. Decommissioned, first critical in 1953.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 11 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). 48 pool-type reactors remain in operation today across 28 countries. Its declared uses include materials testing.

Country

United States

City

Fort Worth, TX

Type

Pool

Thermal power

10 MW

Operator

Nuclear Aerospace Research Facility

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1953

Purpose

Materials testing

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