United States · Sacramento, CA · 38.637, -121.332 (approximate location)

UC Davis/McClellan TRIGA

UC Davis/McClellan TRIGA, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Sacramento, CA, United States, with 2 MW of thermal power, operated by University of California, Davis. Operating, first critical in 1990.

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

Sacramento, CA

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

2 MW

Operator

University of California, Davis

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1990

Purpose

Isotope production, neutron radiography, transmutation, teaching, training, activation analysis

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