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Students in the department will gain design and operation experience by working at the MIT nuclear reactor. Hansen added...
Hansen said that, although the program will not try to train "technicians," graduates of the department will be employable as reactor operators, health physicists, environmental protection officers and on-site nuclear engineers...
Public concern about reactor safety over the past few years, which has forced construction delays and changes in reactor design, has been the primary factor producing the cost increases, according to the report...
...report says that although businessmen and public officials throughout the world agree that nuclear reactors will probably provide the cheapest source of electricity in the future, the construction costs of reactor systems are climbing "at alarming rates...
...forms, of hydrogen) will serve as fusion fuel. In the form of a plasma (a high-temperature, ionized gas), the fuel will be suspended within powerful magnetic fields. Thus the gas will be supported by nothing but magnetic force and will be insulated from the steel walls of the reactor. If the plasma touched the wall, the wall would be heated, the plasma would be contaminated and its temperature lowered. The powerful magnetic fields will be manipulated to squeeze the plasma, raising its temperature and increasing the pressure upon it. The plasma will be made even hotter by an electric...