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

NRAD

NRAD, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Idaho Falls, ID, United States, with 250 kW of thermal power, operated by Argonne National Laboratory. Operating, first critical in 1977.

It is one of the 48 research reactors operating in the United States. It went critical 35 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

Idaho Falls, ID

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

250 kW

Operator

Argonne National Laboratory

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1977

Purpose

Neutron radiography

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