United States · Salt Lake City, UT · 40.646, -111.932 (approximate location)

TRIGA Univ. Utah

TRIGA Univ. Utah, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Salt Lake City, UT, United States, with 100 kW of thermal power, operated by Utah Nuclear Engineering Program. Operating, first critical in 1975.

It is one of the 48 research reactors operating in the United States. It went critical 33 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

Salt Lake City, UT

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

100 kW

Operator

Utah Nuclear Engineering Program

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1975

Purpose

Neutron scattering, teaching, activation analysis

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