Word: reactor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the commission decided the reactor's fuel emits so much radiation that "before anyone could get any [uranium] out of the building, they would be dead or dying," O'Connor said...
...course of examining the reactor's vulnerability, O'Connor, Cambridge's fire chief, the city's police chief and its health commissioner looked at documents from MIT, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and a study by Martin Hirsch. Hirsch teaches at the University of Calfornia at Santa Cruz and is an expert on nuclear research reactors, O'Connor said. They also visited the plant on March...
...study took more than six months because federal regulations require clearance for anyone who wants to look at security procedures in a nuclear reactor...
...associate director of the 28-year-old MIT facility, Lincoln Clark Jr. '41, said that the commission did make one suggestion which has since been incorporated into the reactor's security procedures. He declined to say what the suggestion entailed...
...reactor, which is the second largest research reactor in the country, operates at atmospheric pressure and at a temperature of only 140 degrees Farenheit...