JRR-3
- Country: Japan
- Role: Research
- Status: Operating
- Year: 1962
Overview
The third Japanese research reactor and the first designed domestically, built at Tokai in 1962 and rebuilt in 1990 as a 20 MW unit that still serves neutron scattering and isotope production, one of the oldest operating research reactors in Asia.
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