United States · Ithaca, NY · 42.459, -76.492 (approximate location)

TRIGA Cornell Univ

TRIGA Cornell Univ, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Ithaca, NY, United States, with 500 kW of thermal power, operated by Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences. Decommissioned, first critical in 1962.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 20 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). 36 TRIGA reactors remain in operation today across 17 countries. It is one of 65 research reactors in 20 countries that General Atomics designed or built.

Country

United States

City

Ithaca, NY

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

500 kW

Operator

Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1962

Purpose

Teaching, activation analysis, geochronology

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