United States · Worcester, MA · 42.271, -71.799 (approximate location)

LCWNR Worcester Polytechnic Inst.

LCWNR Worcester Polytechnic Inst., a research reactor (pool) in Worcester, MA, United States, with 10 kW of thermal power, operated by Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Decommissioned, first critical in 1959.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 17 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 isotope production, neutron scattering, neutron radiography and teaching.

Country

United States

City

Worcester, MA

Type

Pool

Thermal power

10 kW

Operator

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1959

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron scattering, neutron radiography, teaching, training, activation analysis, neutron capture therapy

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