Inside MIT's Nuclear Reactor

[Massacure]

A pretty cool tour of a nuclear reactor at MIT.

[JohnnyRingo]

1. That was awesome.

Nice to know where I sit in the hierarchy of intelligence. Students like Sarah give me confidence that the future will be in good hands.

Thanx for posting.

[Towlie]

2. Sorry, too cutesy-poo for me. I can't handle it.

[hunter]

4. Hmmm, in what way?

The young women in my family are fiercely competitive high achievers, much like the women in this video.

It's refreshing to see a science/engineering video that's not a bunch of male priests wearing white robes anointed by some Pope of Science to mansplain very important stuff.

[TryLogic]

3. VERY interesting!

[hunter]

5. That's a hard working machine.

It first achieved criticality in 1958, was upgraded to produce a higher neutron flux in 1973, and generally runs 24/7.

https://nrl.mit.edu/about

There's a fascinating construction video here:

https://nrl.mit.edu/reactor

[ROB-ROX]

6. BUILT 1959 TURNED OFF 1980 University of California

Livermore Pool Type Reactor (LPTR) 3 MW power. I provided health physics safety support. In 1977 started a national program, National Uranium Research & Evaluation (NURE) to find elements in water & dirt samples. There were several "rabbit" systems. Normally the reactor brought up at 8 AM and secured at 4 PM. special experiments required 24 a day operation. All operators tested and certified be allowed to operate reactor. Explosives are not promised near reactors, but a special procedure was written to use neutrons to "X-ray" NASA explosive bolts. Many biological samples irradiated to check for toxic chemicals in animal organs........