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  • IAEA Director General Grossi on a tour of the MITR
    IAEA Director General Visits MIT NRL
  • NRL Projects Awarded CINR FY22 Funding
  • Newly established MIT and INL Center for Reactor Instrumentation and Sensor Physics (CRISP)
  • Water-saving technology installed on a quadrant of the cooling towers of MIT's Nuclear Reactor Lab
    NRL and Infinite Cooling partner to demonstrate new water-saving technology
  • MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab's first director, Theos Thompson, operating the MITR-I, with banner and balloon clipart
    Today in NRL history – July 21st, 1958
  • TIL About Nuclear Energy
    TILclimate Podcast on Nuclear Energy with NRL Director of Science and Technology, Jacopo Buongiorno

News

  • IAEA Director General Visits MIT NRL

    IAEA Director General Visits MIT NRL

  • Newly established MIT and INL Center for Reactor Instrumentation and Sensor Physics (CRISP)

    Newly established MIT and INL Center for Reactor Instrumentation and Sensor Physics (CRISP)

  • TILclimate Podcast on Nuclear Energy with NRL Director of Science and Technology, Jacopo Buongiorno

    TILclimate Podcast on Nuclear Energy with NRL Director of Science and Technology, Jacopo Buongiorno

  • Back to the future: Researchers at MIT’s Nuclear Reactor Lab help revive a salt-based nuclear energy technology abandoned decades ago

    Back to the future: Researchers at MIT’s Nuclear Reactor Lab help revive a salt-based nuclear energy technology abandoned decades ago

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  • Programming for cost efficiency: An intern’s innovation in nuclear automation

  • David Lanning, key contributor to the MIT Reactor, dies at 96

  • MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2024

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