United States · Mount Vernon, VA · 38.677, -77.144

SM-1 Stationary Medium Power

SM-1 Stationary Medium Power, a research reactor (other) in Mount Vernon, VA, United States, with 10 MW of thermal power, operated by US Army. Shut down, first critical in 1957.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 15 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). Its declared uses include training.

Country

United States

City

Mount Vernon, VA

Type

Other

Thermal power

10 MW

Operator

US Army

Status

Shut down

First criticality

1957

Purpose

Training

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