Word: reactor
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Although a commission made up of Cambridge health and safety officials found the safety precautions at MIT's nuclear reactor more than adequate, the City Council Monday asked its own Science Advisory Committee to review the matter further...
Following a Boston Magazine article on the safety of research reactors, the council asked Cambridge officials last December to study whether MIT's five-megawatt reactor was vulnerable to outside attack. The facility uses a highly enriched form of uranium which can be used for bombs...
...Council Tuesday passed a motion introduced by Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci which asked the Science Advisory Committee, headed by Tufts Professor Sheldon Krimsky, to study further the reactor's safety. Krimsky could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Domanyuk, party head in Prepay, the town adjoining the Chernobyl plant, said the government commission investigating the April 26 accident in the plant's No. 4 reactor wanted to get reactors No. 1 and No. 2 going in October. Speaking in an interview on the national television evening news, Domanyuk did not say when the No. 3 reactor might be operating again...
...Reactors No. 1 and No. 2, shut down immediately after the accident, are in a separate building from No. 4. Soviet media accounts said the roof of the No. 3 reactor was damaged by fire, but that the third reactor itself was intact...