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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and right around the corner from there, there's a restaurant that serves salmon with skin on it...
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I saw that video as a part of my MIT edX MOOC on nuclear engineering! The hardest but most satisfying MOOC I took and also lead me to do a Wikipedia correction on the thermal properties of Strongtium-90 so in some tiny way do an advance on human knowledge!
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