Construction of the TRIGA Mark II Fission Reactor Completed

Jan 01 1967

Construction of the TRIGA Mark II fission reactor was completed, which was to be used for education and research purposes in the Division of Nuclear Science and Engineering program, a forerunner of APAM. 

Though licensing and operation was possible in 1974 after successful settling the court cases challenging it, the reactor was never put in operation, and was never fueled and was never radioactive.

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