I thought our tour of the MIT nuclear reactor was a good learning experience. When we first got there we were taken to a room to learn the a brief description of the nuclear reactor and how it works. After that we were taken on a tour of the nuclear reactor (bottom picture). One thing I thought that was interesting was the fact that the MIT nuclear reactor was one day used to help cancer patients and still has the potential to help them but is no longer doing it.

During the tour we were also taken inside the operations room(bottom picture) where there was a young girl monitoring everything that was going on and recording everything going on. During the tour of this room we learned about the reactor automatic shut down system if there was ever a leak.