Reaktor Serba Guna–Gerrit Augustinus Siwabessy (RSG-GAS) ''(Multipurpose Reactor–Gerrit Augustinus Siwabessy)'' is a

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located in the

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neighborhood of

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. The reactor plays an important role in the Centre for Nuclear Industry Development, at Puspiptek, Serpong to serve other supporting laboratories, namely, radioisotope production, nuclear material science, reactor fuel element development, reactor safety, waste treatment, radio-metallurgy and nuclear-mechano laboratories. The reactor was constructed through a $50 million contract with Interatom Internationale Atomreaktorbau GmbH, a unit of the

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steelmaker Kraftwerke Union, which was awarded in 1981. The reactor's fuel rods have originated in the

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and the

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; the fuel was enriched in the United States and

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. The

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safeguards the reactor. It was inaugurated by the second

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on August 20, 1987. The reactor was named after G.A. Siwabessy, Minister of Health and Minister of Atomic Energy under both president

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and

. RSG-GAS went to its first criticality on July 29, 1987. The

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of 30 MW thermal was achieved on March 23, 1992, at the sixth core containing 40 standard

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and 8 control fuel elements.

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