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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
General Atomics Electronic Systems, Inc. (GA-ESI), 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.