Research

Experimental Breeder Reactor I in Idaho generated the worlds first electricity from nuclear fission in December 1951, lighting fou...

A 62.5 MW sodium cooled fast reactor in Idaho that ran from 1964 to 1994, demonstrating a closed fuel cycle with on site reprocess...

The National Research Experimental reactor at Chalk River, once the most powerful research reactor in the world and a workhorse fo...

The National Research Universal reactor at Chalk River supplied medical isotopes including much of the world molybdenum 99 plus ma...

The High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge, one of the most intense steady neutron sources on Earth, produces californium 252 and ...

The High Flux Reactor at Petten, running since 1961 at an average 45 MW, has historically supplied up to a third of European medic...

The research neutron source at the Technical University of Munich in Garching, a 20 MW heavy water moderated reactor with an excep...

The Open Pool Australian Lightwater reactor at Lucas Heights near Sydney, a 20 MW multipurpose reactor producing most of the Austr...

A 30 MW open tank research reactor at Daejeon, the flagship of Korean neutron science since 1995, supporting materials research, i...

The third Japanese research reactor and the first designed domestically, built at Tokai in 1962 and rebuilt in 1990 as a 20 MW uni...

Polands only nuclear research reactor, at Swierk near Warsaw, a 30 MW pool type reactor restarted in 1993 after modernization, pro...

The fast reactor complex on the Caithness coast of Scotland. The Dounreay Fast Reactor inside its famous steel sphere went critica...

The Stationary Low Power Reactor Number One, a US Army prototype at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho. On 3 January 19...

The first artificial nuclear reactor, a pile of graphite blocks and uranium built in a squash court under the stands of Stagg Fiel...

The second artificial nuclear reactor after Chicago Pile-1 and the first designed for continuous operation, built at Oak Ridge in ...