This is the best list of nuclear reactor locations that I have been able to locate. As you can see they are scattered throughout the U.S., some in places you would not expect. Be sure and take a look at the one used by colleges, many of you may be surprised to fined out how close one is to you.
Nuclear Reactor Locations
Plutonium production reactors
- B-Reactor (Pile) – Preserved as a Museum
- F-Reactor (Pile) – Cocooned
- D-Reactor (Pile) – Cocooned
- H-Reactor (Pile) – Being Cocooned
- DR-Reactor (Pile) – Cocooned
- C-Reactor (Pile) – Cocooned
- KE-Reactor (Pile) – Being Cocooned
- KW-Reactor (Pile) – Being Cocooned
- N-Reactor – Being Cocooned
- Savannah River Site, South Carolina
- R-Reactor (Heavy Water) – S&M (Surveillance and Maintenance) Mode
- P-Reactor (Heavy Water) – S&M Mode
- L-Reactor (Heavy Water) – S&M Mode
- K-Reactor (Heavy Water) – S&M Mode
- C-Reactor (Heavy Water) – S&M Mode
Army Nuclear Power Program
United States Naval reactors
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
- Prototype S8G Reactor
- S5W prototype reactor
- D1G prototype (decommissioned)
- S3G prototype (decommissioned), Ballston Spa, New York
- Nuclear Power Training Unit, Charleston, South Carolina
- USS Daniel Webster (SSBN 626)
- USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN 635)
Research reactors Arkansas-Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor, Arkansas
- SEFOR – Shut Down
- Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois (and Idaho)
- ALPR; see also SL-1/ALPR – Facility was turned over to the U.S. Army (1958), was destroyed in an accident (1961)[41]
- AFSR – Shut Down[42]
- BORAX-I – intentionally exploded[43]
- BORAX-II – Shut Down[44]
- BORAX-III – Shut Down[45]
- BORAX-IV – Shut Down[46]
- BORAX-V – Shut Down (1964)[47]
- CP-1 – Chicago Pile 1 (Relocated and renamed as Chicago Pile 2 in 1943) – Shut Down,[48][49]
- CP-3 – Chicago Pile 3 – Shut Down[50]
- CP-5 – Chicago Pile 5 – Shut Down (1979)[51]
- EBR-I – Experimental Breeder Reactor I (originally CP-4) – Shut Down[52]
- EBR-II – Experimental Breeder Reactor II – Shut Down[53]
- EBWR – Experimental Boiling Water Reactor – Shut Down[54]
- LMFBR – Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor – Shut Down
- JANUS reactor – Shut Down (1992)[55]
- JUGGERNAUT – Shut Down[56]
- IFR – Integral Fast Reactor – Never Operated[57][58]
- MTR – Shut Down[59]
- SL-1/ALPR – Stationary Low Power Plant – Shut Down[41]
- S1W/STR – Shut Down[60]
- TREAT – Shut Down[61]
- ZPPR – Zero Power Physics Reactor (formerly Zero Power Plutonium Reactor) – Standby,[62][63]
- ZPR-III – Shut Down[64]
- ZPR-6 – Shut Down in 1982[65]
- ZPR-7 – Shut Down[66]
- ZPR-9 – Shut Down in 1981[67]
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
- High Flux Beam Reactor – Shut Down (1999)
- Medical Research Reactor – Shut Down (2000)
- Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor – Shut Down (1968)
- Hanford Site, Washington
- Fast Flux Test Facility – Core drilled
- Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho (these reactors were due to a number of US government contractors at the National Reactor Testing Station, and the reactors or their sites were taken over by INL when it was created in 2005)[68]
- ARMF-I – Shut Down
- AMRF-II – Shut Down
- ATR – Operating
- ATRC – Operating
- CRCE – Shut Down
- CFRMF – Shut Down
- CET – Shut Down
- Experimental Test Reactor – Shut Down
- ETRC – Shut Down
- EBOR – Never Operated
- ECOR – Never Operated
- 710 – Shut Down
- GCRE – Gas Cooled Reactor Experiment – Shut Down
- HTRE-1 – Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment 1 – Shut Down
- HTRE-2 – Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment 2 – Shut Down
- HTRE-3 – Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment 3 – Shut Down
- 603-A – Shut Down
- HOTCE – Shut Down
- A1W-A – Shut Down
- A1W-B – Shut Down
- LOFT – Shut Down
- ML-1 – Mobil Low Power Plant – Shut Down
- S5G – Shut Down
- NRAD – Operating
- FRAN – Shut Down
- OMRE – Shut Down
- PBF – Shut Down
- RMF – Shut Down
- SUSIE – Operating
- SPERT-I – Shut Down
- SPERT-II – Shut Down
- SPERT-III – Shut Down
- SPERT-IV – Shut Down
- SCRCE – Shut Down
- SNAPTRAN-1 – Shut Down
- SNAPTRAN-2 – Shut Down
- SNAPTRAN-3 – Shut Down
- THRITS – Shut Down
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
- UHTREX – Shut Down
- Omega West – Shut Down
- Clementine – Shut Down
- Nevada Test Site, Nevada
- BREN Tower
- Demonstration Using Flattop Fission (DUFF) – Operated 2012-2012
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee
- X-10 Graphite Reactor – Shut Down, Operated 1943-1963
- Homogeneous Reactor Experiment (HRE) – Shut down, Operated 1952-1954
- Homogeneous Reactor Test (HRT) – Shut down, Operated 1957-1961
- Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) – Shutdown, Operated 1954-1955
- Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) – Shut Down, Operated 1965-1969
- Health Physics Research Reactor (HPRR) – Shut down, Operated 1963-1987
- Low-Intensity Test Reactor (LITR)- Shut down, Operated 1950-1968
- Bulk Shielding Reactor (BSR) – Shut Down, Operated 1950-1987
- Geneva Conference Reactor – Shutdown, Operated 1955
- Tower Shielding Reactor-I (TSR-I) – Shut Down, Operated 1954-1958
- Tower Shielding Reactor-II (TSR-II) – Shutdown, Operated 1958-1982
- Oak Ridge Research Reactor (ORR) – Shut Down, Operated 1958-1987
- High Flux Isotope Reactor – Operating, Started 1965
- Pool Critical Assembly – Shutdown, Operated 1958 – 1987
- Experimental Gas Cooled Reactor (EGCR) – Constructed, but never operated (project canceled in 1966)
- Savannah River Site, South Carolina
- HWCTR – Heavy Water Components Test Reactor – Partial Decommissioning
- Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Simi Hills California
- Sodium Reactor Experiment (Accident 1959, Closed 1964)
- SNAP-10A (Shut Down 1965, presently orbiting)
Civilian Research and Test Reactors Licensed To Operate
Nuclear reactor locations for commercial and college purposes.
Under Decommission Orders or License Amendments
(These research and test reactors are authorized to decontaminate and dismantle their facility to prepare for final survey and license termination.)
- General Atomics, San Diego, California (two reactors)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Sandusky, Ohio (two reactors)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
With Possession-Only Licenses
(These research and test reactors are not authorized to operate the reactor, only to possess the nuclear material on-hand. They are permanently shut down.)
- General Electric Company, Sunol, California (two research and test reactors, one power reactor)
- Nuclear Ship Savannah, James River Reserve Fleet, Virginia (one power reactor)
- University at Buffalo (In use until 1994)
- U.S. Veterans Administration, Omaha, NE
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
There are probably more nuclear reactor locations that we are not aware of, hidden away by the government
