2.
Research Reactor Development.
NSC 5507/2, paragraph 2h b: "Continue cctivities in
the devebpment and application of reseerca reactors."
In addition to the experimental power reactors previously mention ed
there ere at the present time & AEC owned reactors designed wholly or rimarily for research operating in the U. S.
Three more government-owne
research reactors are under construction with scheduled completion dat s in
Still anotner known as the Engineering Test Reactor, is scheduld a
start-up this year.
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Five private research reactors are operating at Ix rth
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1957.
Carolina State College, Pennsylvania State University, Aerojet-General
Nucleonics, Armour Research Foundation, anc Battelle Memorial Institute
Other privately owmed research reactcrs are ncw under final stages of q onstruction at the University of Michigan and Massachusetts Institute of 9 echnolcgy.
Scme twenty-nine others are planned for start-up during the pq riod
1957 - 1959, for a total of 36 private research reactors in the United States,
‘Recent significant developments in the research reactcr field ind ude
the start of construction of a reactor designed specifically for medica 1 re
search at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the operation of tne Omeg a West
Research Reactor et the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the develcpme nt cf
a privately financed low cost, low power reactor now commercially avail ble,
and increesing loans of uranium and neutron sources for use in subdcriti
reactor assemblies for education and training programs.
Over the past two years there has ceveloped keen conmerical compe tFition
among U. S.
equipment manufacturers selling research reactors botn at hi De
and abroad.
A recent compilation indicated that some dozen companies a rs
HSC 5507/2