United States · Austin, TX · 30.380, -97.766 (approximate location)

TRIGA II Univ. Texas

TRIGA II Univ. Texas, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Austin, TX, United States, with 1.1 MW of thermal power, operated by Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory. Operating, first critical in 1992.

It is one of the 48 research reactors operating in the United States. It went critical 50 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

Austin, TX

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

1.1 MW

Operator

Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1992

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron radiography, teaching, training, activation analysis, geochronology, materials testing

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