Operating experience at a university based reactor critical facility

The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Reactor Critical Facility (RCF) provides training and critical experiments in support of the light water reactor power industry. The facility, its operation, current research, and its capabilities are described. The critical experiments are state-of-the-art and are relatively inexpensive. The emphasis is on measurements of power shapes and reactivity coefficients a well as on critical size