University of Illinois Urbana Champaign proposes to build next generation nuclear microreactor
Visualization of nuclear microreactor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, through the Department of Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering, is in the process of applying for a license to construct and operate a new research nuclear microreactor on campus. Co-host Maddie Stover and Trent Ford, the Illinois State Climatologist, were joined by Caleb Brooks, Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the director of the Illinois Microreactor Demonstration Project.
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