United States · Urbana, IL · 40.110, -88.204 (approximate location)

LOPRA Univ. Illinois

LOPRA Univ. Illinois, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Urbana, IL, United States, with 10 kW of thermal power, operated by UIUC Dept of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering. Decommissioned, first critical in 1971.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 29 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). 36 TRIGA reactors remain in operation today across 17 countries. It is one of 65 research reactors in 20 countries that General Atomics designed or built.

Country

United States

City

Urbana, IL

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

10 kW

Operator

UIUC Dept of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1971

Purpose

Teaching

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