United States · Las Vegas, NV · 36.167, -115.149 (approximate location)

TACS Training Assembly Crit Safety

TACS Training Assembly Crit Safety, a research reactor (critical assembly) in Las Vegas, NV, United States, operated by Nevada National Security Site. Operating, first critical in 1979.

It is one of the 48 research reactors operating in the United States, one of 5 zero-power assemblies among them. It went critical 37 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). It is one of 44 critical assemblies operating worldwide, spread across 12 countries. Its declared uses include nuclear data measurements.

Country

United States

City

Las Vegas, NV

Type

Critical assembly

Thermal power

critical

Operator

Nevada National Security Site

Status

Operating

First criticality

1979

Purpose

Nuclear data

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