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Celebrating its 60th birthday in 2018, MITR specializes in first-of-a-kind experiments.

The US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has submitted to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission a preliminary report on a new uranium fuel that will enable the conversion of six US research reactors from highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium.

MIT Reactor superintendent aims to give more students the opportunity to work with and learn from the reactor

Bill McCarthy, a Deputy Director of EHS and Reactor Radiation Protection Officer at the NRL, received the Excellence Award for Innovative Solutions at the 2017 MIT Excellence Awards Ceremony.

NRL Mechanical Engineer and Shift Supervisor, Adam Grein, was a recipient of the 2016 MIT Infinite Mile Award.

Tim Leurini and Keith Honeycutt received their NRC licenses for the MITR

On April 23rd the NRL hosted a Nuclear Science and Technology Q&A event as part of MIT’s Open House. Here are pictures from the event!

An INL / MIT-NRL team designs, develops, and demonstrates the first system in the U.S. that can perform real-time high-temperature, aqueous, crack growth tests in the core of a research reactor.

The MIT NRL is involved in two collaborative research projects that are aimed at a high-tech revival of a nuclear reactor coolant that has not been used since 1969.