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CRISP - INL and NRL

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

September 2021 - In-person tours are back for the MIT community! Visit our Tours page for more details. Virtual options still available

In-person tours for the MIT community start back up September 2021

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

FS-3 Installation at Reactor Top

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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CRISP - INL and NRL
CRISP - INL and NRL

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

TIL About Nuclear Energy

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

FS-3 Installation at Reactor Top

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

Gordon Kohse, Jacopo Buongiorno, and Lance Snead

New team to lead MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (MIT News)

Announcements

NRL and Infinite Cooling partner to demonstrate new water-saving technology

In-person tours for the MIT community start back up September 2021

ORNL and AMS Complete Sensor Testing for Small Modular Reactors [DOE]

NRL Seed Program

MIT Faculty and Research Staff may now apply for limited no-cost access to a variety of services for experiments utilizing the MITR and its facilities through the NRL Seed program.

Reactor Videos

Video Tour of the MITR

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