Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission

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Also known as CCHEN

The Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear (CCHEN) is the Chilean government's nuclear agency, under the Ministry of Energy, responsible for regulating, authorising and inspecting nuclear and radioactive activity in Chile. It also does nuclear research and development at two nuclear centres near Santiago, La Reina and Lo Aguirre. It operates the RECH-1 pool research reactor, in service since 1974; a second reactor, RECH-2, is in extended shutdown.

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Sector: Fission
Role: Government programme, Research institute, Operator

It is the operator of record for RECH-1 (operating) and RECH-2 (suspended).

Design values

Design values for devices operated by Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission. These are what a machine was built to do, not results.
Device	Parameter	Value	Unit	Status
RECH-1	Thermal capacity (rated)	5	MW	design valueclaimed
RECH-2	Thermal capacity (rated)	2	MW	design valueclaimed

Devices

RECH-1Water-cooledOperating1 figure on record RECH-2Water-cooledSuspended1 figure on record

Sources

Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclearaggregator
Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclearoperator
List of nuclear research reactors (Wikipedia)aggregator