JASON reactor

JASON was a low-power nuclear research reactor installed by the Ministry of Defence at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London, now home to the University of Greenwich, to educate and train military and civilian personnel involved in the naval nuclear submarine propulsion.

[1] It was an Argonaut series 10 kW research reactor designed by the US Argonne National Laboratory, and was used by the Royal Navy for experimental and training purposes.

JASON was one of very few reactors operating within a major population centre (another was at Queen Mary in east London)– and undoubtedly the only one installed in a 17th-century building.

The existence of a nuclear reactor so close to central London was largely unknown to the general public, even at the time that "Maritime Greenwich" was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

The case was dismissed on 12 April 2005, the court confirming[4] that the treaty does not apply to uses of nuclear energy for military purposes.