Campus Nuclear Reactors Draw Scrutiny

Campus Nuclear Reactors Draw Scrutiny

The facilities attract the attention of the news media and federal regulators, as a plan to end the use of weapons-grade fuel moves slowly

The nuclear reactor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is small and not particularly powerful, with a core no bigger than a dormitory refrigerator and operating power one six-hundredth that of an average power reactor. Compared with its commercial counterparts, it is so unimposing that some

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