Australia
- HIFAR (High Flux Australian Reactor; 10 MWt), Lucas Heights, New South Wales, produced patient nuclear medicine doses (approx half a million a year) for the diagnosis and treatment of major diseases such as cancer and heart disease. It first went critical on January 26, 1958 and was decommissioned January 2007 which will take up to 10 years to complete.
- MOATA, 100kWt Argonaut class reactor, now permanently shut down.
- HIFAR has been replaced by the OPAL reactor facility supplied by Argentine INVAP. This facility first went critical at 11.25pm on August 12, 2006.
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