TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) is a class of nuclear research reactor designed and manufactured by General Atomics. The design team for TRIGA, which included Edward Teller, …

GA's TRIGA ® (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactor is the most widely used non-power nuclear reactor in the world. GA has installed 66 TRIGA reactors at universities, government …

The mission of the TRIGA® is to support USGS science by providing information on geologic, plant, and animal specimens to advance methods and techniques unique to nuclear reactors. The reactor …

Ever since the training, research, isotopes, General Atomics (TRIGA)1 reactor concept was developed in the second half of the 1950s, these facilities have played an important role worldwide in …

Dec 8, 2025 · TRIGA, officially known as the University of Illinois Advanced Teaching Research Isotope General Atomic (TRIGA Mark II) Reactor, went critical on August 16, 1960.

Sep 28, 2023 · TRIGA International is a joint venture between Framatome and General Atomics. The company is the world’s only supplier of TRIGA fuel and restarted its fuel production last year …

The centerpiece of the Nuclear Engineering & Science Center is a 1-megawatt TRIGA (Testing, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactor, an open “swimming pool”-type research reactor …

The OSTR is a water-cooled, pool-type research reactor that uses uranium/zirconium hydride fuel elements in a circular grid array. The reactor is licensed by the USNRC to operate at a maximum …

Sep 28, 2023 · TRIGA reactors — first conceptualized and brought to reality in the 1950s by a team that included famed physicists Edward Teller and Freeman Dyson — use a zirconium-hydride fuel that …

On May 27-29, 2008, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) conducted an inspection at your U.S. Geological Survey TRIGA Reactor facility. The enclosed report documents the inspection …