Research Reactor - Research Centers

Research Centers

Research centers that operate a reactor:

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary
• Helsinki University of Technology in Espoo, Finland
• Institut Laue-Langevin, a French-German-British neutron source in Grenoble, France
• Balseiro Institute / Bariloche Atomic Center operates RA-6, Argentina
• CONSORT, a 100 kW reactor operated by Imperial College at a site near Ascot, Berkshire, England.
• ZED-2 (1960–) at AECL's Chalk River Laboratories near Deep River, Ontario, Canada
• McMaster Nuclear Reactor (5 MW, 1959–) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• National Research Universal Reactor (135 MW, 200MW, 1957–) at AECL's Chalk River Laboratories near Deep River, Ontario, Canada
• Petten nuclear reactors (30 kW and 60MW, 1960–) in Petten, Netherlands
• Orphee of the Laboratoire Leon Brillouin at Saclay, France
• FRM II at Technische Universität München in Garching, Germany (20 MW, 2004–)
• Reactor Institute Delft at the Delft University of Technology, a 2 MWt pool-type research reactor, The Netherlands.
• BER II located at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Berlin, Germany (10 MW)
• Mainz located at the Universität Mainz, Institut für Kernchemie in Mainz, Germany (0,10 MW, shortterm peakpower for 0,03 s: 250 MW)
• Vienna located at the Technical University Vienna, TU Wien, Atominstitut in Vienna, Austria (250 kW)
• IRT-2000 (2 MW) research reactor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences research site, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• OPAL (20MW, 2006–) at Lucas Heights near Sydney, Australia
• IEA-R1 (3.5MW, 1957) pool-type reactor at Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN) in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Pool-type reactor at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in Moscow.
• SAFARI-1 at NECSA, Pelindaba, South Africa
• HANARO at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute in Daejeon, South Korea
• LVR-15 at Nuclear Research Institute, Řež, Czech Republic
• HFIR at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, USA
• ATR at Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, ID, USA
• the University of Missouri Research Reactor
• the Washington State University Nuclear Radiation Center, (WSUR)
• CROCUS, a nuclear reactor operated by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• Maria reactor (30 MW) at POLATOM Institute of Nuclear Energy in Świerk-Otwock, near Warsaw, Poland

Decommissioned research reactors:

• ASTRA, 10MW, 1960–1999, in Seibersdorf, Austria
• JASON reactor (Argonaut, 10 kW, 1962–1996) in a 17th century building at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich near London
• MOATA (Argonaut, 100 kW, 1961–1995) and HIFAR (DIDO, 1958–2007 at Lucas Heights near Sydney, Australia
• Nuclear Power Demonstration (20 MW, 1961–1987) at AECL's Rolphton plant near Deep River, Ontario Canada
• NRX (1952–1992) at AECL's Chalk River Laboratories in Deep River, Ontario, Canada
• PLUTO reactor (DIDO, 26MW, 1957–1990) in Harwell, Oxfordshire, England
• Pool Test Reactor (10 kW, 1957–1990) at AECL's Chalk River Laboratories in Deep River, Ontario, Canada
• WR-1 (60 MW, 1965–1985) at AECL's Whiteshell Laboratories, near Pinawa, Manitoba
• ZEEP (1945–1973) of the Chalk River Laboratories in Deep River, Ontario, Canada
• Ewa reactor (2–10 MW, 1958–1995) at POLATOM Institute of Nuclear Energy in Świerk-Otwock, near Warsaw, Poland