The MIT Nuclear Research Reactor serves the research purposes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

What do they do at MIT?

The reactor is used for research and not power, moreover it is used for materials research as well as medical research and it produces isotopes for medicine for implantation and finally it has other researching radiation.

The MIT nuclear reactor contains a number of experimental facilities such as In-core Irradiation Facilities, Fission converter beam, thermal neutron beam, and beam ports.

The MIT nuclear reactor has three process, we are going to start talking about the Fission process. The fission is basically when the nucleus absorbs an extra neutron and it breaks into two parts. The fissions products contain a lot of energy. They are saving the energy for the reactor.

Reaching to the Core description, the core consists of 27 positions most of which are filled with fuel elements. They have neutron-controlling blades as well as water circulates through the core.

Lastly reaching to the reactor systems, they lie under two parts, one of which is called the cooling system. The MIT reactor produces heat in addition to neutrons, heat would be converted through steam into electricity the heat is carried away via heat exchangers.

On the other hand is the radiation monitoring, The MIT Reactor has over twenty area and effluent radiation monitors operating continuously to provide an indication of radiation levels at various points both inside and outside the reactor.