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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...
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...
...Advanced reactors under development in the U.S., Europe and Japan may prove more promising. Known as "inherent safety" devices, all are designed to eliminate vulnerable cooling systems and human errors and shut down immediately in case of malfunction. One such machine is being developed at the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago. Any sudden rise in temperature will halt the experimental reactor within minutes. The system performed flawlessly in its initial test last April. A similar Swedish unit called PIUS (Process Inherent Ultimate Safety) floods with water in the event of a mishap; the boron-treated liquid instantly stops the reactor...