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Control Rod Drive
The TRIGA® Control Rod Drive for research reactors is an electrically driven linear drive mechanism to position and control movement of the reactor control rods and control blades.

Fuel
Low-enriched, long-lifetime uranium zirconium hydride (UZrH) fuel is the fundamental feature of the TRIGA® family of reactors that accounts for its widely recognized safety, rugged, dependable performance, economy of operation, and its acceptance worldwide.

Nuclear Instrumentation
Sorrento Electronics, an affiliate of General Atomics, continues to design, develop and manufacture instrumentation and control devices to fulfill the needs of nuclear research and testing reactors.

Complete Control Systems
A state-of-the-art instrumentation and control system using microprocessor technology provides replacement of older, existing instrumentation and control systems that contain obsolete components. Increased flexibility, higher availability, and lower costs are only a few of the good reasons to convert to this system.