• the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago built the first nuclear reactor and achieved a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in December 1942?
  
• the Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor, built in 1961, was the first nuclear reactor in the U.S. state of Missouri?
• the large positive void coefficient of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl was a major factor in causing the Chernobyl accident?
• the University of Arkansas owns SEFOR, a highly contaminated experimental research nuclear reactor that was deactived in 1972?
• retired Israel Defense Force Major General Eitan Ben Eliyahu flew as a fighter escort during Operation Opera in 1981, which resulted in the destruction of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor?
• Cosmos 1818, which has an inactive nuclear reactor, was fractured by either a collision or thermal stresses, generating radioactive debris in a high earth orbit?
• Japan Steel Works is the only company in the world which can make the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, and a backlog may lead to a global delay in constructing nuclear power plants?
• France has strengthened bilateral ties with India by signing agreements allowing it to purchase French-made nuclear reactors, the Mirage 2000 fighters, and the Scorpène submarines?

Facts on topics related to Nuclear reactor

Nuclear power plant

• construction of Żarnowiec, Poland's only nuclear power plant, was cancelled as the project neared completion?
• in a major improvement in bilateral ties since it blocked Bangladesh's entry in the U.N. in 1972, China offered to help Bangladesh construct its first nuclear plant?
• several countries, including Sweden and Germany have started a nuclear power phase-out, with the goal of gradually shutting down all nuclear power plants?
• the Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant will be the first Russian nuclear power plant with foreign shareholding?

Nuclear power

• Igor Spassky, the head of the Russian Rubin Design Bureau, was the chief designer of 187 submarines (91 diesel-electric and 96 nuclear) as well as Halliburton oil platforms and the marine part of the Sea Launch complex?
• Japan Steel Works is the only company in the world which can make the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, and a backlog may lead to a global delay in constructing nuclear power plants?
• Nikolaus Riehl researched the production of uranium in Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union, and the civil use of nuclear power in West Germany?
• Offshore Power Systems, a joint venture between Westinghouse Electric and Newport News Shipbuilding, spent more than $125 million during the 1970s but never built a floating nuclear power plant?
• scenes for the 2009 television advertisement The Life were filmed inside the cooling tower of an active nuclear power station?
• the ocean liner SS Leonardo da Vinci was constructed in 1960 with provisions to be nuclear-powered?
• the first major anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany took place in 1975 in opposition to the construction of a proposed nuclear power station in Wyhl?