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At the Univ of Maryland College Park in the mid 1980s, a campus of 40k students, it was common knowledge the was a small research reactor in full time operation
by anjel 11mo ago
At the Univ of Maryland College Park in the mid 1980s, a campus of 40k students, it was common knowledge the was a small research reactor in full time operation right on campus. I can't imagine it was the only school to have one.
- sudosteph 11mo agoWe also have one at NC State, still there AFAIK. I thought it made sense though given our nuclear engineering program. I looked it up and apparently we've had 3 or 4 different reactors on campus over the years, first one in 1950: https://nrp.ne.ncsu.edu/about/history/ https://nrp.ne.ncsu.edu/about/history/ I'd wager that even most NC State students don't know that it's there though.
- justin66 11mo agoMy school for undergrad had, and still has, a "Nuclear Reactor Laboratory." I'm pretty sure everyone who cared understood what was going on there. The university got in trouble in the mid nineties for having buried nuclear waste as well as medical waste (cadavers) on a remote part of campus, but apparently that's not enough to put a Nuclear Reactor Laboratory out of business. Or a large university's medical system, of course.
- lsaferite 11mo agohttps://neup.inl.gov/infrastructure/university-research-reactors/ https://neup.inl.gov/infrastructure/university-research-reac...