United States · Palo Alto, CA · 37.429, -122.138 (approximate location)

SPR Stanford Univ.

SPR Stanford Univ., a research reactor (pool) in Palo Alto, CA, United States, with 10 kW of thermal power, operated by Stanford Univ. School of Engineering. Decommissioned, first critical in 1959.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 17 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). 48 pool-type reactors remain in operation today across 28 countries. Its declared uses include teaching.

Country

United States

City

Palo Alto, CA

Type

Pool

Thermal power

10 kW

Operator

Stanford Univ. School of Engineering

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1959

Purpose

Teaching

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