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Ford Nuclear Reactor

also Ford Nuclear Reactor Univ. Michigan

Ford Nuclear Reactor was a 2 MW thermal pool-type research reactor in Ann Arbor, MI, the United States, run by the University of Michigan Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. The IAEA Research Reactor Database lists it as decommissioned, with first criticality on 18 September 1957.

Type
Research reactor
Approach
Water-cooled
Country
US
Status
Decommissioned

Design values

What the machine was built to do, as published. Not results, and never ranked.

Design values for Ford Nuclear Reactor
ParameterValueUnit StatusSource
Thermal capacity (rated) medium confidence 2 MW MW claimed IAEA Research Reactor Database (RRDB): public reactor list (JSON behind nucleus.iaea.org/rrdb) aggregator