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The Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR) Program develops technology necessary to enable the conversion of civilian facilities using high enriched uranium (HEU) to low enriched uranium (LEU) fuels and targets. The RERTR Program was initiated by the U.S. Department of Energy in 1978. During the Program's existence, over 40 research reactors have been converted from HEU (= or >20% U-235) to LEU (< 20% U-235) fuels, and processes have been developed for producing radioisotopes with LEU targets. The RERTR Program is managed by the Office of Nuclear Material Threat Reduction in the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The main technology components of the program are:
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Fuels for Research and Test Reactors
- Currently-Qualified Fuels
- Advanced Fuel Development
- Foreign Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel
- IAEA/USA Interregional Training Course
on Technical and Administrative Preparations Required for Shipment of Research Reactor Spent Fuel to Its Country of Origin - January 1997
Design and Safety Analyses for Research and Test Reactors
Radioisotope Production
Reference Documents concerning the RERTR Program
RERTR International Meetings
Recent RERTR International Meetings
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The U.S. Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Global Threat Reduction in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency hosted the “RERTR 2012 International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors.” The meeting was organized by Argonne National Laboratory, Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) and Idaho National Laboratory and took place in Warsaw, Poland from October 14-17, 2012. This was the 34th annual meeting in a series on the same general subject regarding conversion of reactors within the Global Threat Reduction Initiative. RERTR-2012 related resources:
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Past RERTR International Meetings
2011 RERTR Meeting
2010 RERTR Meeting
2009 RERTR Meeting
- RERTR-2009
- Available Papers Presented at the 2009 RERTR Meeting, Beijing, China, November 1-5, 2009.
For the complete list of RERTR International Meetings, see RERTR International Meetings
Past Meetings docs
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