NSE Spotlight: Lin-wen Hu: Advancing MIT's Educational Mission at the MIT Reactor Lab
NSE Spotlight: Lin-wen Hu: Advancing MIT's Educational Mission at the MIT Reactor Lab
Kathryn M. O'Neill, MIT NSE
September 14, 2011
MIT's Research Reactor (MITR) plays a critical role not only in the education of MIT students, but on the national stage for advanced nuclear reactor fuel and materials research, according to Lin-wen Hu, the associate director of research development and utilization at the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (NRL).
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has chosen the NRL as the test site for converting from high enriched uranium to low enriched uranium fuel. "MITR will be the first reactor in the world to use this new fuel and to demonstrate that reactor performance can be maintained after fuel conversion," Hu said.