United States · Idaho Falls, ID · 43.533, -112.945 (approximate location)

ML-1 Mobile Low Power Reactor

ML-1 Mobile Low Power Reactor, a research reactor (other) in Idaho Falls, ID, United States, with 3.3 MW of thermal power, operated by Aerojet General Nucleonics. Decommissioned, first critical in 1961.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 19 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). Its declared uses include nuclear data measurements and materials testing.

Country

United States

City

Idaho Falls, ID

Type

Other

Thermal power

3.3 MW

Operator

Aerojet General Nucleonics

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1961

Purpose

Nuclear data, materials testing

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