North Carolina State University Reactor Program
Source(s): IAEA Database of Reactors data from 2002-09-04
NC State housed the first university-based reactor program and Nuclear Engineering curriculum; the program is still active today. In 1950, NC State College administrators approved the construction of a reactor and the establishment of a collegiate nuclear engineering program. The first research reactor was built in 1953, scaled up in 1957 and 1960 (referred to as R-1, R-2, and R-3), and finally deactivated in 1973 to make way for the PULSTAR reactor. The old reactor is now decommissioned and the PULSTAR is used for a variety of purposes which include training and research. The reactor is located in Burlington Engineering laboratories on NCSU's main campus, which was built to house the first reactor and then expanded and renamed when the PULSTAR was built.
The current reactor is one of two PULSTAR reactors built, and the only one still in operation. The other reactor was a 2 MW reactor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, which went critical in 1964 and was decommissioned in 1994.
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