List of nuclear research reactors

This is an annotated list of all the nuclear fission-based nuclear research reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. Some "research" reactors were built for the purpose of producing material for nuclear weapons.

Australia
Notes: The main uses of the current OPAL reactor are:
 * Irradiation of target materials to produce radioisotopes for medical and industrial applications
 * Research in the fields of materials science and structural biology using neutron beams and its sophisticated suite of experimental equipment
 * Analysis of minerals and samples using the neutron activation technique and the delay neutron activation technique
 * Irradiation of silicon ingots in order to dope them with phosphorus and produce the basic material used in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices

Belgium

 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg GUINEVERE – fast, accelerator driven, lead-cooled reactor at SCK•CEN, Mol

Estonia

 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Paldiski – 2 PWR naval training reactors (dismantled)

France
Working:
 * Azur at Cadarache
 * Cabri at Cadarache
 * Eole at Cadarache
 * Masurca at Cadarache
 * Minerve at Cadarache

Germany

 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg AKR II – Ausbildungskernreaktor II, Technische Universität Dresden; rating: 2 W, commissioned 2005
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg AVR – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor, Forschungszentrum Jülich; rating: 15 MW, commissioned 1969; closed 1988
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg BER II – Berliner-Experimentier-Reaktor II, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie; rating: 10 MW, commissioned 1990, closed 2019
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg FRG-1 (see GKSS Research Center) – Geesthacht; rating: 5 MW, commissioned 1958
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg FRM II – Technische Universität München; rating: 20 MW, commissioned 2004
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg FRMZ – TRIGA of the University of Mainz, Institute of Nuclear Chemistry; continuous rating: 0.10 MW, pulse rating for 30ms: 250 MW; commissioned 1965
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg FR2 - Forschungsreaktor 2; rating: 44 MW; commissioned 1957; closed: 1981
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg SUR-FW "Neutron"; Hochschule Furtwangen University; type Siemens-Unterrichtsreaktor SUR-100; rating: 0.1 W; commissioned 1973
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg SUR-S; University of Stuttgart; type Siemens-Unterrichtsreaktor SUR-100; rating: 0.1 W; commissioned 1964
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg SUR-U; Ulm University of Applied Sciences; type Siemens-Unterrichtsreaktor SUR-100; rating: 0.1 W; commissioned 1965

Planned

 * Wyhl, planned nuclear plant that was never built because of long-time resistance by the local population and environmentalists.

India

 * Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) – Trombay
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Apsara reactor – Asia's first nuclear reactor. 1 MW, pool type, light water moderated, enriched uranium fuel supplied by France
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg CIRUS reactor – 40 MW, supplied by Canada, heavy water moderated, uses natural uranium fuel
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Dhruva reactor – 100 MW, heavy water moderated, uses natural uranium fuel
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Purnima series
 * Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR) – Kalpakkam
 * PFBR – 500MWe Sodium cooled fast breeder nuclear reactor, under construction. Expected completion 2015.
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg FBTR – 40 MW Fast Breeder Test Reactor, uses mixed (plutonium and uranium) carbide fuel
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg KAMINI –30 kW, uses U-233 fuel

Iran

 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Tehran – AMF reactor at Tehran Nuclear Research Center (supplied by USA, 1967)
 * Isfahan, Nuclear Technology Center (mainly supplied by China, )
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg MNSR – 27 kW Miniature Neutron Source Reactor
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Light Water Subcritical Reactor (LWSCR)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Heavy Water Zero Power Reactor (HWZPR)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Graphite Subcritical Reactor (GSCR)
 * Arak – IR-40 Heavy water-moderated reactor (under construction, planned commissioning 2014)

Iraq
Note: Tamuz-1 and Tamuz-2 are parts of the same French nuclear research complex design, the OSIRIS research complex. All three reactors were located at the same site.

Italy

 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Brasimone (Bologna) – PEC (Prove Esperimenti Combustibile - Fuel Test Experiments): ENEA Ente Nazionale Energia Atomica - National Atomic Energy Agency - Brasimone Research Center (1972–1987)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Ispra (Varese) – ISPRA-1 (5 MW): European Commission Joint Research Centre (1959–1973)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Ispra (Varese) – ECO (Essai Critique ORGEL, 1 kW): European Commission Joint Research Centre (1966–1983)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Ispra (Varese) – ESSOR (ESSai ORrganique eau lourde, 25MW): European Commission Joint Research Centre (1967–1983)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Legnaro (Padova) - RTS-1: INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - National Institute for Nuclear Physic (1963–1980)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Milan - L-54 (50 kW): CeSNEF Centro Studi Nucleari "Enrico Fermi" - Politecnico di Milano (1957–1979)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Montecuccolino (Bologna) - RB-1 (zero-power reactor): University of Bologna (1962–1985)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Montecuccolino (Bologna) - RB-2 (1 kW): University of Bologna (1964–1985)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Montecuccolino (Bologna) - RB-3 - Aquilone 11 (1 kW): University of Bologna (1971–1989)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Pavia – TRIGA LENA (TRIGA Mk.II model, 250 kW): University of Pavia (1965 - operational)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Palermo - AGN-201 "Costanza" (zero-power reactor): University of Palermo (1960 – operational)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Saluggia (Vercelli) - AVOGADRO RS-1 ("Swimming Pool" model): FIAT/Montecatini (1959–1971)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg San Piero a Grado (Pisa) – RTS-1 "Galileo Galilei" ("Swimming Pool" model, 5MW): CAMEN Centro Applicazioni Militari Energia Nucleare - Center for Military Applications of Nuclear Energy (1963–1980)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Santa Maria di Galeria (Roma) – ROSPO-2 (2 kW): ENEA Ente Nazionale Energia Atomica - Casaccia Research Center (1960–1975)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Santa Maria di Galeria (Roma) – TRIGA RC-1 (modified TRIGA Mk.II model, 1MW): ENEA Ente Nazionale Energia Atomica - Casaccia Research Center (1960–1987, reactivated 2010)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Santa Maria di Galeria (Roma) – RC-4 RITMO (0.01 kW): ENEA Ente Nazionale Energia Atomica - Casaccia Research Center (1965–1978)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Santa Maria di Galeria (Roma) – RANA (10 kW): ENEA Ente Nazionale Energia Atomica - Casaccia Research Center (1965–1981)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Santa Maria di Galeria (Roma) – TAPIRO (modified Argonne Fast Source Reactor model, 5 kW): ENEA Ente Nazionale Energia Atomica - Casaccia Research Center (1971–1987, reactivated 2010)

Japan

 * Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) Reactors
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Tōkai JRR-2 (shut down)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Tōkai JRR-3
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Tōkai JRR-4
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Tōkai JPDR (Japan Power Demonstration Reactor, shut down)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Ōarai High-temperature engineering test reactor (HTTR)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Ōarai JMTR (Japan Materials Testing Reactor)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Naka JT-60 fusion reactor


 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Nuclear Safety Research Reactor
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Fugen (ATR (Advanced Thermal Reactor), shut down)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Jōyō (FBR)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Monju (FBR)
 * Kinki University
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg UTR-KINKI
 * Kyoto University
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg KUR
 * Musashi Institute of Technology (Tokyo City University)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg MITRR (TRIGA-II) (shut down 1990)
 * Rikkyo University
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg RUR (TRIGA-II) (shut down)
 * University of Tokyo
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Yayoi (shut down)

Pakistan
Under IAEA safeguards

Not under IAEA safeguards

Panama

 * USS Sturgis - floating nuclear power plant for Panama Canal (operating 1966 to 1976)

Poland

 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Ewa reactor - 10 MW VVR-SM research reactor (dismantled in 1995)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Maria reactor - 30 MW research reactor
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Anna reactor - 10 kW research reactor (dismantled)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Agata reactor - 10 W zero-power research reactor (dismantled)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Maryla reactor - 100 W zero-power research reactor (dismantled)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg UR-100 reactor - 100 kW training reactor (dismantled)

Puerto Rico

 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Mayagüez - TRIGA reactor (dismantled)
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg Boiling Nuclear Superheater (BONUS) Reactor Facility, BONUS - superheated BWR (decommissioned). Listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Romania

 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Institute for Nuclear Research, Mioveni, 110 km northwest of Bucharest - TRIGA reactor (capable consisting of either a 500 kW pulse ACPR core, or a 14 MW steady state core)
 * National Institute for Research and Isotopic Separation, Govora, 170 km west of Bucharest - no research reactors, but instead devoted to heavy water production
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-red.svg National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, IFIN-HH, Mǎgurele, 5 km southwest of Bucharest - a 2 MW VVR-S research reactor (shut down in April 2002, with decommissioning/dismantling started in 2013)

Russia
A total of 98 nuclear research facilities, including:
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg T-15 fusion reactor at Kurchatov Institute
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg VVR-M 18 MW reactor at St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg IBR-2 2 MW pulsed reactor at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg SM, Arbus (ACT-1), MIR.M1, RBT-6, RBT-10 / 1, RBT-10 / 2, BOR-60 and VK-50 Research Institute of Atomic Reactors

Fuel pilot plants

 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg TRD Fuel Pilot Plant (Turkish Atomic Energy Authority)

United Kingdom

 * Icon NuclearPowerPlant-green.svg Culham - JET fusion reactor


 * Dounreay
 * The Shore Test Facility (STF) at VULCAN (Rolls-Royce Naval Marine)
 * DSMP1 at VULCAN (Rolls-Royce Naval Marine) (shut down 1984)
 * Prototype Fast Reactor (shut down 1994)

Civilian (private and university) research and test reactors formerly licensed to operate
Research and test reactors Under decommission order(s) or license amendment(s) are authorized to decontaminate and dismantle their facility to prepare for final survey and license termination. Research and test reactors with possession-only licenses are not authorized to operate the reactor, only to possess the nuclear material on-hand. They are permanently shut down.