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=== Table by date === {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+Reactors constructed before 1950 !Name !Alternate names !Country !Location !Moderator !Criticality date |- |[[Chicago Pile-1]] |CP-1 |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[University of Chicago]], Illinois |Graphite |2 December 1942<ref name="r9742">{{cite book |last=Reed |first=Bruce Cameron |title=Manhattan Project |date=2020 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-45733-4 |publication-place=Cham |pages=149–169 |chapter=Piles and Secret Cities |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-45734-1_5}}</ref> |- |[[Chicago Pile-2]] |CP-2 |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Site A]], Illinois |Graphite |20 March 1943<ref name="r908">{{cite journal |last=Reed |first=B. Cameron |date=2021 |title=An inter-country comparison of nuclear pile development during World War II |journal=The European Physical Journal H |volume=46 |issue=1 |page=15 |arxiv=2001.09971 |bibcode=2021EPJH...46...15R |doi=10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00020-x |issn=2102-6459 |doi-access=free}}</ref> |- |[[X-10 Graphite Reactor|Oak Ridge Graphite Reactor]] |X-10, Clinton Pile |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Clinton Laboratories]], Tennessee |Graphite |4 November 1943<ref name="r9083">{{cite journal |last=Reed |first=B. Cameron |date=2021 |title=An inter-country comparison of nuclear pile development during World War II |journal=The European Physical Journal H |volume=46 |issue=1 |page=15 |arxiv=2001.09971 |bibcode=2021EPJH...46...15R |doi=10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00020-x |issn=2102-6459 |doi-access=free}}</ref> |- |[[305 Test Pile]]<ref name="b3802">{{cite report |title=Nuclear reactors built, being built, or planned 1993 |date=1993-08-01 |publisher=Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) |doi=10.2172/10141005 |page= |doi-access=free|osti=10141005 }}</ref> | |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Hanford Site]], Washington |Graphite |March 1944<ref name="r9084">{{cite journal |last=Reed |first=B. Cameron |date=2021 |title=An inter-country comparison of nuclear pile development during World War II |journal=The European Physical Journal H |volume=46 |issue=1 |page=15 |arxiv=2001.09971 |bibcode=2021EPJH...46...15R |doi=10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00020-x |issn=2102-6459 |doi-access=free}}</ref>{{When|date=January 2025|reason=The whole pile is very obscure I'm not sure if anyone can find this information but would be nice}} |- |[[Chicago Pile-3]] |CP-3 |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Site A]], Illinois |Heavy water |15 May 1944<ref name="t0242">{{cite web |title=Manhattan Project: Places > Metallurgical Laboratory > CP-2 and CP-3 |url=https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Places/MetLab/cp2-3.html |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=OSTI.GOV}}</ref> |- |[[LOPO|Los Alamos LOPO Reactor]]<ref name="b380">{{cite report |title=Nuclear reactors built, being built, or planned 1993 |date=1993-08-01 |publisher=Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) |doi=10.2172/10141005 |page= |doi-access=free|osti=10141005 }}</ref> |LOPO |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Project Y|Los Alamos Laboratory]], New Mexico |Light water |9 May 1944<ref name="o365">{{cite web |date=1920-06-03 |title=Timeline |url=https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/nuc-history/timeline/ |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=Nuclear Museum}}</ref> |- |[[B Reactor]] | |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Hanford Site]], Washington |Graphite |26 September 1944<ref name="r9082">{{cite journal |last=Reed |first=B. Cameron |date=2021 |title=An inter-country comparison of nuclear pile development during World War II |journal=The European Physical Journal H |volume=46 |issue=1 |page=15 |arxiv=2001.09971 |bibcode=2021EPJH...46...15R |doi=10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00020-x |issn=2102-6459 |doi-access=free}}</ref> |- |[[Project Y#Water boiler|Los Alamos Water Boiler]] |HYPO |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Project Y|Los Alamos Laboratory]], New Mexico |Light water |December 1944<ref name="o363">{{cite report |url=https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1133322 |title=Discussion Regarding Aqueous Homogeneous Reactor (AHR) Benchmarks |last1=Klein |first1=Steven |last2=Kimpland |first2=Robert |date=2014-05-28 |doi=10.2172/1133322 |page= |access-date=2024-12-30 |doi-access=free}}</ref>{{When|date=January 2025|reason=Not sure if available information but would be nice to narrow the day}} |- |D Reactor | |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Hanford Site]], Washington |Graphite |December 1944<ref name="c166">{{cite web |date=1994-09-30 |title=Plutonium: The First 50 Years |url=https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/pu50yc.html |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=FAS Project on Government Secrecy (1991-2021)}}</ref> |- |[[Dragon (pulsed nuclear reactor)|Dragon]] | |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Project Y|Los Alamos Laboratory]], New Mexico |None (fast) |20 January 1945<ref name="e6442">{{cite journal |last1=Kimpland |first1=Robert |last2=Grove |first2=Travis |last3=Jaegers |first3=Peter |last4=Malenfant |first4=Richard |last5=Myers |first5=William |date=2021-12-03 |title=Critical Assemblies: Dragon Burst Assembly and Solution Assemblies |journal=Nuclear Technology |volume=207 |issue=sup1 |pages=S81–S99 |arxiv=2103.05780 |bibcode=2021NucTe.207S..81K |doi=10.1080/00295450.2021.1927626 |issn=0029-5450 |doi-access=free}}</ref> |- |F Reactor | |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Hanford Site]], Washington |Graphite |February 1945<ref name="c166" /> |- | colspan="5" |''[[Trinity test|Trinity]], first US nuclear test'' |''16 July 1945'' |- |[[ZEEP|Zero Energy Experimental Pile]] |ZEEP |{{Flag|Canada}} |[[Chalk River Laboratories]], Ontario |Heavy water |5 September 1945<ref name="zeep-cstm2">{{cite web |title=ZEEP -- Canada's First Nuclear Reactor |url=http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/whatson/zeep.cfm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306233719/http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/whatson/zeep.cfm |archivedate=6 March 2014 |publisher=Canada Science and Technology Museum}}</ref> |- |[[Clementine (nuclear reactor)|Los Alamos Fast Reactor]] |Clementine |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Project Y|Los Alamos Laboratory]], New Mexico |None (fast) |19 November 1946<ref name="j8012">{{cite journal |last1=Patenaude |first1=Hannah K. |last2=Freibert |first2=Franz J. |date=2023-03-09 |title=Oh, My Darling Clementine: A Detailed History and Data Repository of the Los Alamos Plutonium Fast Reactor |journal=Nuclear Technology |publisher=Informa UK Limited |volume=209 |issue=7 |pages=963–1007 |bibcode=2023NucTe.209..963P |doi=10.1080/00295450.2023.2176686 |issn=0029-5450 |doi-access=free}}</ref> |- |[[F-1 (nuclear reactor)|F-1]] | |{{Flag|Soviet Union}} |[[Kurchatov Institute|Laboratory No. 2]], Moscow |Graphite |25 December 1946 |- |[[NRX|National Research Experimental]] |NRX |{{Flag|Canada}} |[[Chalk River Laboratories]], Ontario |Heavy water |22 July 1947<ref name="y105">{{cite book |last=Hurst |first=D.G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uz0AwAAQBAJ |title=Canada Enters the Nuclear Age: A Technical History of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited as Seen from Its Research Laboratories |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-7735-6653-8 |page=45 |access-date=2024-12-31}}</ref> |- |[[GLEEP|Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile]] |GLEEP |{{Flag|United Kingdom}} |[[Atomic Energy Research Establishment]], Oxfordshire |Graphite |15 August 1947<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hill |first=C |title=An Atomic Empire: A Technical History of the Rise and Fall of the British Atomic Energy Programme |date=2013 |publisher=Imperial College Press |isbn=978-1-908977-41-0}}</ref> |- |Reactor A | |{{Flag|Soviet Union}} |[[Mayak Production Association]], Chelyabinsk Oblast |Graphite |10 June 1948<ref name="s400">{{cite journal |last=Diakov |first=Anatoli |date=2011-04-25 |title=The History of Plutonium Production in Russia |journal=Science & Global Security |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=28–45 |bibcode=2011S&GS...19...28D |doi=10.1080/08929882.2011.566459 |issn=0892-9882}}</ref> |- |[[BEPO (nuclear reactor)|British Experimental Pile Operation]] |BEPO |{{Flag|United Kingdom}} |[[Atomic Energy Research Establishment]], Oxfordshire |Graphite |3 July 1948<ref name="l121">{{cite web |date=2023-07-03 |title=Magnox BEPO reactor 75th Anniversary |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/magnox-bepo-reactor-75th-anniversary |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=GOV.UK}}</ref> |- |[[Zoé (reactor)|Eau Lourde-1]] (Heavy Water-1) |EL-1, Zoé |{{Flag|France|1949}} |[[Fort de Châtillon]], Paris |Heavy water |15 December 1948<ref name="ic12">{{cite web |title=Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie |url=http://www.curie.fr/fondation/musee/irene-frederic-joliot-curie.cfm/lang/_gb.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603032613/http://www.curie.fr/fondation/musee/irene-frederic-joliot-curie.cfm/lang/_gb.htm |archive-date=2010-06-03 |access-date=26 April 2010 |publisher=Institut Curie}}</ref> |- |[[Physical Boiler on Fast Neutrons]] |FKBN |{{Flag|Soviet Union}} |[[All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics|Design Bureau No. 11]], Sarov |None (fast) |1 February 1949<ref name="k264">{{cite web |title=ФКБН / Сводный указатель объектов / Атомный проект СССР // Электронная библиотека /// История Росатома |url=https://elib.biblioatom.ru/soviet-atomic-program/objects/fizicheskiy_kotel_na_byistryih_neytronah@13272/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=Электронная библиотека /// История Росатома |language=ru}}</ref> |- |[[TVR (nuclear reactor)|TVR]] |TVR |{{Flag|Soviet Union}} |[[Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics|Laboratory No. 3]], Moscow |Heavy water |April 1949<ref name="b940">{{cite journal |last1=Loffe |first1=B. L. |last2=Shvedov |first2=O. V. |date=1999 |title=Heavy water reactors and nuclear power plants in the USSR and Russia: Past, present, and future |journal=Atomic Energy |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=295–304 |doi=10.1007/BF02673145 |issn=1063-4258}}</ref> |- | colspan="5" |''[[RDS-1]], first Soviet nuclear test'' |''29 August 1949'' |- |H Reactor | |{{Flag|United States|1942}} |[[Hanford Site]], Washington |Graphite |October 1949<ref name="c166" /> |}
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