United States · College Park, MD · 38.997, -76.927 (approximate location)

MUTR Univ. Maryland

MUTR Univ. Maryland, a research reactor (tRIGA) in College Park, MD, United States, with 250 kW of thermal power, operated by Univ. Maryland, Dept. of Materials & Nuclear Eng.. Operating, first critical in 1960.

It is one of the 48 research reactors operating in the United States. It went critical 18 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). It is one of 36 TRIGA reactors operating worldwide, spread across 17 countries. It is one of 65 research reactors in 20 countries that General Atomics designed or built.

Country

United States

City

College Park, MD

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

250 kW

Operator

Univ. Maryland, Dept. of Materials & Nuclear Eng.

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1960

Purpose

Teaching, activation analysis

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