United States · Mayagüez, Puerto Rico · 18.201, -67.143 (approximate location)

TRIGA Puerto Rico Nuclear Center

TRIGA Puerto Rico Nuclear Center, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, United States, with 2 MW of thermal power, operated by Center for Energy and Environmental Research (CEER). Decommissioned, first critical in 1972.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 30 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

Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

2 MW

Operator

Center for Energy and Environmental Research (CEER)

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1972

Purpose

Isotope production, teaching, materials testing

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