United States · Mountain View, CA · 29.679, -82.353 (approximate location)

UTR Test Reactor

UTR Test Reactor, a research reactor (other) in Mountain View, CA, United States, with 15 W of thermal power, operated by Advanced Technology Laboratories. Decommissioned, first critical in 1961.

It was one of the 340 research reactors the United States has had; 48 remain in operation today. It went critical 19 years after the first research reactor in the United States, CP-1, Chicago Pile 1 (1942). Its declared uses include training and materials testing.

Country

United States

City

Mountain View, CA

Type

Other

Thermal power

15 W

Operator

Advanced Technology Laboratories

Status

Decommissioned

First criticality

1961

Purpose

Training, materials testing

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