United States · East Lansing, MI · 42.735, -84.481 (approximate location)

TRIGA Mark I Michigan State Univ.

TRIGA Mark I Michigan State Univ., a research reactor (tRIGA) in East Lansing, MI, United States, with 250 kW of thermal power, operated by Chemical Engineering Dept, Michigan St. Univ.. Decommissioned, first critical in 1969.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 27 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

East Lansing, MI

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

250 kW

Operator

Chemical Engineering Dept, Michigan St. Univ.

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1969

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