The museum encourages a walking tour of the Urbana campus to promote awareness of the Illinois tradition of innovation.
For 38 years, from the time TRIGA went critical on August 16, 1960 to when the facility was shuttered in 1998, the reactor left a profound impact on nuclear engineering research and education. Learning opportunities and research accomplishments that the facility made possible are appropriately noted in nuclear engineering history through TRIGA’s designation in 2015 as an American Nuclear Society National Nuclear Historic Landmark. A marker designating where the reactor was once located currently stands southeast of the Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W. Springfield Ave.
View a pdf of the TRIGA Dedication Program.