Brian K. Baum ’10 calls his job “essentially glorified babysitting,” but he’s not watching over his neighbor’s kids. Instead, he is one of a small group of undergraduates who operates MIT’s nuclear reactor.

This group of students work in addition to the ten full-time employees at the reactor. They serve as operators and shift supervisors, performing everything from daily monitoring of the reactor’s operations to running drills of possible problems.

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