A materials test reactor (MTR) is a high power research

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Materials testing reactors include: * The Materials Testing Reactor (MTR), an early reactor that operated in

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from 1952-1970. *

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Dido class reactor DIDO was a materials testing nuclear reactor at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. It used enriched uranium metal fuel, and heavy water as both neutron moderator and primary coolant. Ther ...

in the

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ETRR-2 ETRR-2 or ET-RR-2 (''Experimental Training Research Reactor Number two''), (''Egypt Test and Research Reactor Number two'') or (''Multi-Purpose Reactor'') is the second nuclear reactor in Egypt supplied by the Argentine company Investigacion Apl ...

, at the

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. * Jules Horowitz Reactor, under construction at the

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nuclear facility in southern

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in Petten, the

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. * PINSTECH National Laboratory (PNL) in

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. *Reactor Technology Complex of the

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, United States. * RV-1 nuclear reactor in Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Venezuela *

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, outside of

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, also used to produce medical isotopes.

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Ne.anl.gov: MTR Reactors designed by the Argonne National LaboratoryDocs.google.com: Materials Testing Reactor
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