United States · Ballston Spa, NY · 43.007, -73.851 (approximate location)

MARF

MARF, a research reactor (other) in Ballston Spa, NY, United States, operated by Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corp.. Shut down, first critical in 1976.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 34 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942).

Country

United States

City

Ballston Spa, NY

Type

Other

Thermal power

critical

Operator

Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corp.

Status

Shut down

First criticality

1976

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