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fyi, OSU college has a 1-megawatt research reactor.

https://www.oregon.gov/energy/facilities-safety/facilities/P...

https://www.corvallisadvocate.com/2012/got-nuke-state-of-the...

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University of Illinois had one for many years in Urbana. My uncle ran the reactor and then babysat the fuel for a decade or so after it was decommissioned. It takes that long to get the fuel disposed of apparently.

One of the problems in the US is that there are research reactors and production reactors, nothing in between. Research reactors are to small to prove out many concepts.

So startups have to essentially go from nothing to first commercial reactor in one step, without iteration.

I just recently watched this video/tour of MIT's reactor, pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcN3KDexcU

Reed college in Portland has a 250kW one operating since 1968.

https://reactor.reed.edu/about.html

North Carolina State University has a little 1 MW training reactor for it's Nuclear Engineering track.

https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/nrp/about/pulstar-reactor/

A lot of universities around the world have research reactors.

Back when I worked at my alma mater, I could see the reactor building across the yard from the coffee room. Still waiting for that third eye to start growing out of my forehead.

McMaster University in Hamilton, ON has a reactor as well:

https://nuclear.mcmaster.ca/facility/nuclear-reactor/

The University of Florida has a 100kW training reactor since 1959[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UF_Training_Reactor

UC Irvine has one underneath the chemistry building https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/trigareactor/

The University of Texas at Austin has a 1-megawatt nuclear reactor:

https://nuclear.engr.utexas.edu/netl/triga-reactor

BUT... it also has two 74-megawatt gas turbines that supply the campus with electricity and steam:

https://utilities.utexas.edu/chp/about-carl-j-eckhardt-combi...

Mizzou has a 10MW:

https://www.murr.missouri.edu/

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