The FMPP is considered a Material Testing Reactor ( MTR )-type fuel element facility, that produces the fuel elements required for the research reactor ETRR-2.
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The museum now houses panels from the control room at the Dounreay Materials Testing Reactor ( DMTR ), which in 1958 had become Scotland's first operation nuclear reactor.
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Weighable quantities of californium were first produced by the irradiation of plutonium targets at the Materials Testing Reactor at the National Reactor Testing Station in eastern Idaho; and these findings were reported in 1954.
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The ultimate success of the pressurized water reactor, he wrote, was due less to any superior characteristics of water, but rather to the decision to power the prototype of the Mark I submarine thermal reactor with a pressurized version of the Materials Testing Reactor at Oak Ridge.