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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I lived on a nuclear powered submarine for a bit. Always most impressed by the guys who kept it un-exploded.
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Wait actually i’m thinking of the Reed College reactor in OR
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there's a section in ch4 of _Atomic Accidents_ describing how the AEC designed and tested boiling-water reactors designed to be safely operated by, and I quote, "undergraduates horsing around at the controls"
weeping for our lost retrofuture of a BWR on every campus 😢
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If it makes you feel better research reactors are really hard to fuck up at
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