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...cooling system, such a problem at Harrisburg, is not so crucial at MIT because the reactor there never gets that...
...three-fold safety system causes problems of its own, though. "Anyone who's in charge of a reactor is sweating all the time trying to keep it running because there's so much redundancy in the circuits. Every time Cambridge power hiccoughs, we have to stop and check for a problem in our equipment," Harling said...
Harling said the MIT reactor studies beta and gamma particles themselves, rather than using them for energy, and its reactor produces only one-600th of the wattage of a commercial plant...
...fact, the core's products are cool enough to generate steam safely. Thomas Jones, MIT vice president for research, said yesterday the reactor body fills with hot but not scalding water. "The energy at that temperature isn't very useful, but it's very safe," he said. "In fact, if people had been energy-conscious then as they are now, we could have used the energy to heat these buildings...
Harling stresses that the system is hermetically sealed--even used-up fuel rods, which become highly radioactive waste, stay in the reactor core as long as possible to cool...