i knew MIT had a nuclear eng program but it didn't occur to me until yesterday to check and, yes, MIT also has a reactor, "the second largest university research reactor in the U.S. and the only one located on the campus of a major research university" and i never visited 😔
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this is like the time i learned MIT has a climbing wall i also never visited. so many missed opportunities
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the walls of this building feel intensely nostalgic. big MIT energy
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i'm glad there are still people around who are competent enough to run a nuclear reactor without dying
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apparently there were *classes* i could've taken where i would've gotten to *perform experiments using the reactor*
fucking wild
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Reminds me: Legend is that students at one Finnish university liked, just for fun, to push the parameters of their research reactor to the point where an emergency shutdown would kick in. Until the country's radiation & nuclear safety agency told them to please stop doing that.
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> just for fun, to push the parameters of their research reactor to the point where an emergency shutdown would kick in
This seems like an overly realistic Chernobyl cosplay.
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Maybe they’re not “major” but that seems wrong
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